After an idle period I have found time to do this blog after giving up on the DT this morning. It is a thick paper which, on Saturday mornings, the paper boy cannot get through the letter box but I finished "reading" it in record time.

Are the DT mounting a coup ? What possessed them to put such a critical spin on one opinion poll and then highlight it as the main leader on the front page ? Why employ Anthony King, who looked shocked and depressed by Tory gains on General Election night, to expatiate on the numbers? Why do it just before the Tory party conference ? Surely Simon Heffer, lurking in the Comment section today hasn't such power at the paper as to sway its entire editorial policy ?

This is not why I subscribe to the DT, especially as the rest of the paper has not been that great lately - not much to read before about p. 17, typographical errors creeping in etc.