Letters From A Tory Daily views on British politics and the Conservative Party from a centre-right thinker who writes letters on his blog to politicians, journalists and many others.

“If I may, you ought to have sex by yourself. You ought to touch yourself with a certain frequency.”
- Silvio Berlusconi, who is now faced with further embarrassment today after the weekly news magazine L’Espresso posted a recording on its website apparently made soon after he had finished having sex with a prostitute.  Berlusconi purportedly discusses [...]

Dear Max Mosley.
Yikes.  Even though you are a powerful man as boss of Formula 1’s governing body, this really was a bit of a shocker.  Being caught with a prostitute is one thing, but being caught with five prostitutes engaging in a sado-masochistic ‘Nazi orgy’ was probably a bit of overkill.  Should anyone care?  Well, [...]

It is hard for the media to resist a good old-fashioned sex scandal from a politician, and luckily for them they seem to turn up with alarming regularity.  I wonder if it has now reached the point where, instead of just reading about scandals, people will consider betting on the them?