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Matthew Parris

The Tories would be mad to cuddle up to Ukip

3 October 2013

1:00 PM

3 October 2013

1:00 PM

Such is my respect for Spectator readers that I offer you a column whose subtext is in Latin. Ours is one of the last mainstream magazines among whose readership the phrase mutatis mutandis will be very widely understood.

But the little test you and I are going to try concerns a live issue, not a dead language.

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