Quintin Jardine's blog

Couldn’t help laughing this morning, when I read that the Spectator has accused George Osborne of being ‘pusillanimous’ over spending reform. My dad would have loved that; after he had his stroke, he had a therapist whom he called ‘Pusillanimous’. My mum and I never did figure out whether that was a  description, or simply the closest he could get to her real name.

Whatever, it’s clear there is little cross-over between readers of the Spectator and  the Daily Star.