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“GRANT SHAPPS is a fine man and has never done anything dodgy,” Lib Dem campaign chief Paddy Ashdown has declared.
Mr Ashdown lavished Mr Shapps with praise after the Tory chairman was accused of editing his own Wikipedia entry under an pseudonymous profile named Contribsx.
The Lib Dem particularly singled out his rival, who wrote Stinking Rich Three under the soubriquet Michael Green, for his literary talent.
SCOTT ALSWORTH searches for something – anything – worth recommending from the year’s releases
At the very moment Britain faces poverty, housing and climate crises requiring radical solutions, the liberal press promotes ideologically narrow books while marginalising authors who offer the most accurate understanding of change, writes IAN SINCLAIR
STEVEN ANDREW welcomes a fine introduction to FC United of Manchester, the team set up in opposition to Manchester United
MARTIN HALL passes time in the sanguine company of a traditional conservative, recalling their disastrous governments