Now that the Murdoch press is available to us expats again I find myelf asking where do they get their columnists from. I mean, for example, what depth of ignorance must you have, as Mary-Anne Sieghart displays today, to ask this question:

SO THE Bill to ban fox hunting has finally been passed. And one of the most bizarre aspects of its passage is that it ended up being opposed by both main party leaders.
Can anyone think of another piece of Government legislation that went through without the support of either the Labour or the Conservative leader? I can’t.

Just off the top of my head, a random plucking from the past, anything passed by the Governments of Gladstone?
Shocking as it may seem there was actually a time before the Labour Party. One hopes to live long enough to see the time when there one is no longer, of course.