Even AS doesn't write like this about his nemesis, HRC:
It has been a long-held thesis of mine that almost all the ills of the world are in some way the consequence of Peter Mandelson – earthquakes, tornadoes, the credit crunch, bush fires in the Kalahari, swarms of killer bees in Brazil.
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The truth is that Mandelson is too much the politician; he would not know a principle if it accosted him in a Brazilian nightclub wearing a G-string and a handlebar moustache. That is perhaps why nobody likes him.
-Ron Liddle for Murdoch's Times
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The truth is that Mandelson is too much the politician; he would not know a principle if it accosted him in a Brazilian nightclub wearing a G-string and a handlebar moustache. That is perhaps why nobody likes him.
-Ron Liddle for Murdoch's Times
