But a different Murdoch this time. I write of Richard "Stinker" Murdoch the comedian and actor who was the first to adopt a gay persona to get laughs. In real life he was staunchly heterosexual with a wife and three children in a semi in a leafy suburb, but on the Radio (we called it 'wireless' then) he pretended to be gay. (We called that 'queer' then.) He did a successful show with Arthur Askey throughout the war, entertained the troops and generally cheered everyone up. So you see there are or were some good Murdochs unlike the power-mad barbarians who are so successfully diverting attention from the MPs expenses scandal. Now we see that the House of Commons is full of moralising seekers after the truth. There used to be a rule about coming to justice with clean hands but that is now forgotten. And whatever happened to Huhne and the little matter of his wife's driving licence? Now they are all united and baying for blood.
We need a new political group of those who are ready to admit defeat like we should in a number of countries where we have intervened. Only pride keeps us there and fear that we were wrong all the time. Rochester put it neatly, "All men would be cowards if they dar'st". It is time to be daring.
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