It’s bad enough when it looks as though the Government is about to consist of a bunch of Old Etonians and former members of the Oxford University Bullingdon drinking club.
But it looks as though the workingman’s paper the Sun has also fallen into the white-gloved hands of the toffocracy with the replacement of political editor George Pascoe-Watson (who’s off to join creepy PR man Tim Allan’s Portland outfit) with defence correspondent Tom Newton Dunn (even toffier toffs don’t take the hyphen these days).
Newton Dunn is said to have remonstrated with the Sun hierarchy’s decision to go big on Gordon Brown’s botched condolence letter to the mother of a soldier killed in Afganistan. Mind how you go Tom, scruples are frowned upon in Sun Towers.
Former Sun editor Rebekah Wade, now dominatrix of the News International in the UK, recently married playboy racehorse trainer Charlie Brooks and apparently hobnobs in Oxfordshire of a weekend with David and Samantha Cameron (which doesn’t please Gordon either of course). That’s when she’s not flying off to Venice with Charlie for lunch.
Mr Blatherskite thinks it’s time Rupert Murdoch put his foot down and inserted some proletarians in there. But, after three decades in America, would Rupert recognise one if he saw one?