I totally agree Medhi. Oborne is one of the few Torygraph columnists I regularly read and agree with. He is more analytical and has a greater sense of morals than his fellow columnists. Bo Jo, Tebbit, Jeff Randall, Daniel Hannan, Christopher Booker and Heffer all have more than a screw loose.

It appears to be that whereas the left tend to argue from the basis of fact and reasoned argument, the right prefers hysteria, generalisation and anectdotal evidence to put their case.
This is also be seen in the USA midterms where the Tea Party and Democrats have completely different styles.

Unfortunately the right-wing, Daily Mail-style of political rhetoric is dominant currently. Stories, however fictional, trump bare facts and Labour needs to find a new (fact-based) compelling narrative.

okay i have more than 100 relatives in US. I will write to each one of them to vote Obama next time around, provided he breaks up investment bank and the retail ones.

Let us see how honest are leftists.

yes. though it is absurd to imagine that it is osborne alone who is responsible for telling lies about benefit fraud. benedict brogan, and other telegraph columnists, are, after all, always telling us how close they are. I suspect oborne's long term attachment to the conservative party means that he would prefer to blame osborne rather than the party leader, though this is nonsense.

though clearly oborne finds the attacks on people on benefits just a bit too nasty, which is exactly what they are, and a few other tories who find it equally distasteful might start feeling uncomfortable too. though to single out osborne and pretend cameron is not responsible is rubbish. after all putting two nasty rightwingers like duncan smith and grayling in the dwp tells us all we need to know about cameron and his view of people on benefits.

I was pleased to see Peter Oborne's article today, at last someone presenting real figures - which incidentally I posted on 18th October under James Macintyre's 'Do the media lead the anti benefit's screaming' post.

It's disheartening that on the whole, journalists across the media spectrum fail to delve just a little into statisitcs put out by Ministers and highlight the inaccuracies.

Well done Mr Oborne for breaking that particular mould.

When the Telegraph calls a tory chancellor a liar, it's time to reach for a politically-scintillating phrase. Where to get one, that's the problem.
But if only it was a matter of standard-issue lying (politicians for the use of). There does seem to be a schizophrenia about this era of politics. They seem to believe their own lies.