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How droll, you must be one of Mr & Mrs Cochranes dinner party set, that is their style exactly...
the " Time to burst Alex Salmond's bubble " headline is a classic of the kind , the empty boast of a despairing cypher proclaiming some imaginary superiority over the very people that actually have the bottle to stand and fight for what they believe.

It is really a variation of the golf club rabid nonentity with delusions of power holding forth on " people who should be flogged on the way to the gallows"

But for absolute vintage misplaced, worthless arrogance, so painfully, obviously based upon nothing more that an extraordinarily over-inflated , gormless and hideously swollen ego, I would refer you to the oddly tin-eared Mrs Cochrane.

The savage Ms Hjul and her endless masterpieces of badly misjudged attempts to pass her self off as British, and civilised in her various columns.

All of which , alas only serve to give a glimpse into a mind of such weirdly twisted malice and crude incomprehension of the subtle mores of enlightened British sensibilities, one could only pity poor Alan, had he any part of the the wit required to to perceive artless, meaningless falsehood.
but, of course, how could he?
when he is pleased to publish his own