Creative literary inspiration found in the Sunday Herald

Via Gareth we notice this astonishing bit of dunghackery* by Ian MacWhirter in the Sunday Herald (a paper apparently without an editor):

...a lot of senior Tories don’t warm to Davis, who is regarded as a bit of a big mouth, and a bully whose recent moderation doesn’t entirely suit him. He also had some hard-right political tendencies in the past, such as the campaign for an English parliament.

Now, I have seen many opinions describing various things as hard-right in the past but this is one of the more ill-educated of those opinions. Quick, we need to find out from Mr MacWhirter what it is about equality and the return of symmetry to the Union that he finds hard-right. Or does he think that every nation with it's own parliament is a hard-right nation? We demand an explanation.

* Dunghackery - heh, just invented it (in the same way that MacWhirter invents things). Meaning: to write crap with the specific intent of discrediting something or someone by making up crap to write. See 'writing' and 'crap'. Also see dung.

Posted by John at June 14, 2005 12:41 PM | TrackBack