Benedict Brogan, one of the best informed political commentators in the Westminster village, penned a piece in The Daily Telegraph on Cameron’s forthcoming cabinet reshuffle. One respondent , peter63, though admiring Brogan, wondered just how detached he and his colleagues across the media from the world outside the village…
for a certain kind of Titanic-watcher, I suppose there is some interest in seeing which way the deckchairs are rearranged before ship up-ends and goes down.
Nobody at the Telegraph seems to have an inkling of the watershed change in the public mood (at least, as that mood is outside London).
There is a new mindset in so much of the nation. What IS fascinating is to observe how little this is perceived among the DT journalists – all of them highly talented and well educated persons.
It explains to me how the courts of France or Russia could in the last months of their ancien régimes have really no proper idea of what was to overtake them.
Worth a thought….
