[Boiler]

You'll get no veritas from Verity.

[Andy McDandy]

Just when I thought I couldn't be any more fazed by the sheer incestuousness of it all, something comes along to amaze me all over again.

Say what you like about Labour and the left, but they didn't all go to the same schools and university.

[Boiler]

Eton isn't about education - we've heard the often-inaccurate bollocks its former pupils come out with (vide Rees-Mogg on Handel recently) - but it's all about making connections to the powerful.

[Samanfur]

Martin Clarke to step down as editor of MailOnline

The editor of MailOnline, one of the UK’s biggest news websites, has announced he is leaving, weeks after appearing to be one of the victors in an internal power struggle at its owner, DMG Media.

Martin Clarke, who had been editor-in-chief at the online arm of the publisher which also owns the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday, will stand down at the end of February. He had been at MailOnline for 12 years.

In a statement he said that he had told the group’s owner, Lord Rothermere, that he wanted to leave earlier this year “to pursue new challenges”.

“This has been a once-in-a-lifetime ride and there is simply no other job with DMG Media I would rather have,” he said.

A successor is yet to be named.

[Andy McDandy]

Surely he should be stepping out, flaunting his P45?

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Showing his assets...

[Bones McCoy]

Showing Rothermire what he's missing.

[Youngian]

Tim’s made a startling discovery. Think what he means is they used to put their journalist hats on when there’s a juicy story even if it was a Tory government.

[Rosvanian]

Tim’s made a startling discovery. Think what he means is they used to put their journalist hats on when there’s a juicy story even if it was a Tory government.

All joking aside, that's a quite incredible statement for an educated, intelligent person to make. He's just inviting ridicule.

[Bones McCoy]

Tim’s made a startling discovery. Think what he means is they used to put their journalist hats on when there’s a juicy story even if it was a Tory government.

All we are seeing here is the cleaving of the Conservative body into the Johnsonites and the Anybody but Johnsonites.
These are the opening shots in a civil war that could engulf the parliamentary party, the local parties, Fleet Street, the internet, and Tufton Street.