Since then he has carved out a niche as a columnist and political humourist; mostly gently right wing, always humane. I've always liked his work and had come to broadly imagine that just cos he put a cross in the wrong box, he was basically a fair minded person. I guess that was why it was such a shock, I would have expected it of Redwood or Hannan and dismissed it. But Matthew Parris !!??

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