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“Today Mr Brown will unveil his party’s election slogan. Its ‘themes’ for the campaign include ‘Ensuring the recovery’, ‘Protecting front line services’, ‘Standing up for the many’ and ‘Protecting future jobs and new industries’. I fear that he will not embrace a much-needed spirit of truthfulness and go for ‘Finishing off Britain’, ‘Lying for Labour’, [...]

Dear Simon Heffer,
I find your Telegraph column to be a rather mixed bag.  While I often agree with your demands, complaints and general narrative, most of which is aimed at the Conservative Party, I simply do not understand how you can ignore the political context surrounding the events that you describe.  Your dislike for Conservative Party policy, [...]

“We shall watch Mr Darling on Monday to see whether he recognises that Labour’s gravity-defying economic behaviour has to stop. I am not hopeful. If he doesn’t cotton on, prepare to emigrate.”
- Simon Heffer in today’s Telegraph

Dear Simon Heffer,
Normally you are a little too crude for my tastes, but today I think you have hit the mark quite beautifully in your article for the Telegraph.  Like you, I sat through Gordon Brown’s speech yesterday and wondered what on earth was going on.  I don’t think I’ve ever heard somebody talk so much [...]

“He has, as so many who have met him readily testify, the sort of charm that curdles milk”
- Simon Heffer on Schools Secretary Ed Balls

“Despite fierce competition, Ed Balls, Children’s Minister, is by some distance the most repulsive member of Her Majesty’s Government”
- Simon Heffer

Dear Simon Heffer,
Your thoroughly justified anger in today’s Telegraph was verging on an educated rant, and consequently made for good reading.
Although you touched on many recent news stories, your point about public services was the most cutting.  The fact that many ministers have never done a ‘real job’ means that they are completely detached from the ‘real world’.  [...]

Dear Simon Heffer,
Well done on a superb summary of the Northern Rock crisis in today’s Telegraph.  You have succinctly captured the idiocy of the entire situation from the government’s perspective and made it very clear how incredibly dangerous the don’t-worry-Gordon-will-bail-you-out precedent is.
For all this panic and fear spread around by the media, you quite rightly pointed [...]