Motes & Beams

This is pretty meta.  Matthew Norman, in an article about chutzpah, and how Boris Johnson is its anthropomorphic representation, damns the tousled one in the following terms:

He was once, for example, a dodgy News International journo himself, being fired by The Times for manufacturing a quote.

And where is this article written? The Independent, which when it comes to quote manufacturing is the Chinese super-factory to Boris’s cottage industry. Now that’s chutzpah…