We Should All Be So Persecuted: A Tale of David and Goliath, in Which the Part of Goliath-Representing the Ruthless Left-Wing Intelligentsia and Media-Is Taken by Lorraine Kelly

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Is your heart chilled? Apparently it ought to be. According to Melanie Phillips in the Daily Mail, the sacking of Patrick Mercer from the Tory front bench "should chill the heart of every single person of any colour or creed who cares about truth, justice and decency". Why? Because it shows that the Tories "are running scared of a venomous media and left-wing intelligentsia" bent on smearing the party with "the toxic taint of racism".

In case you missed this story of towering moral significance, Mercer (of whom most of us had never heard) was the Tory spokesman on homeland security (a job most of us did not know existed) until he was fired by David Cameron for saying some dazzlingly ill-judged things about black soldiers in the army. …