You know, I think I like this columnist:

A recent investigation by the same newspaper merely revealed that
the BNP was a) a political party seeking election and b) becoming a bit
less racist. There is no suggestion that Clarke has foisted her grubby
little prejudices on colleagues.She might be a nut, but why
crack her with a sledgehammer? If you can no longer hold views liberal
society rightly regards as repugnant, how liberal is your society?

and…

Last week, we woke to hear Ed Stourton announcing the result of a
vote on which nanny-state law Today listeners would abolish. Alas for
Ed, people had voted massively to end the ban on… foxhunting.

He
admitted through gritted metropolitan teeth that the BBC almost refused
to count the votes due to ‘suspicions there was an organised campaign
at work’. What? A campaign before a vote? Whatever next? Perhaps we
should declare the last election void for fear Labour conducted an
‘organised campaign’.

I realise that the Worstall seal of approval will make damn all difference to Mr. Gerard (if his emplyers ever heard about it it would more than likely, if they took the slightest notice, to be injurious to his prospects rather than anything else) but how remarkable to find that a British newspaper actually employs a real liberal.