My slogan for mainstream media

Rod Liddle

Is it entirely beyond the wit of our gilded political correspondents to ask a different question to the one asked by the previous interlocutor?

One after the other they lined up to ask Dominic Cummings the same question, over and over again. Does Peston think he’s asking it better than Kuenssberg? Does Beth Rigby think that asking it for a fourth time will be more elucidatory because she asked it with open contempt in her voice? And how magnificently puffed up they all were.

When they were en route to the press conference did they all think the same thing: that they had the killer question and nobody else would have thought of it? Dimbojournalism.