Cheering if true

Guido has news that Simon Heffer will no longer be editing the comment pieces over at the Telegraph. Regulars will know that I dislike Simon Heffer quite considerably, viewing his choleric squire pose as both unconvincing and irritating. There is an atmosphere of infuriated purism over at the Telegraph, one that would prefer ideologically chaste impotence to any compromise with the electorate.

If the Conservatives manage to win the next election you can bet your bottom dollar that Heffer will write an article saying that, if only they'd espoused low taxation and a return of the death penalty then it would have been a landslide. (If they get a landslide Heffer will have had an aneurism anyway and will be unable to comment).