Tim Worstall has an original explanation of Polly Toynbee's support for Harriet Harperson, rather than Hilary Benn:
[N]iece of a Countess supported by g-g grandaughter of an Earl.
Hilary Benn is, of course, merely the second son of a Viscount.
Further, the Harman connection is to a title from 1677, the Toynbee one to a title from 1322, revived in 1660.
The Viscountcy dates only from 1942.
Easy to see what's happening here, the ladies are simply ganging up on some unspeakable arriviste.
The recent CAA poll findings about young adults’ attitudes to Israel and Hamas are shocking but entirely unsurprising
This week’s paper is a special edition to mark a year since the worst atrocity against Jews since the Shoah
The Prime Minister writes for the JC on the anniversary of October 7
The great novelist and writer reflects on the first anniversary of the October 7 pogrom
What we do not yet know is how
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