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Matthew Parris

What Jeremy Corbyn, like David Cameron, understands about the cold, dark heart of the British public

Leave compassion to journalists and Lib Dems. Voters want a dash of acid

3 October 2015

9:00 AM

3 October 2015

9:00 AM

There’s a hard, hard mood out there among the public and I don’t think our newspapers get it at all. Could it be that the general populace are now more cynical than their journalists?

At Tim Farron’s closing speech to his Liberal Democrat conference in Bournemouth last week, I sat through nearly an hour of one of the biggest cartloads of sanctimonious tosh it’s been my fate to endure in decades.

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