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The media and David Davis

Jun 16, 2008

Civil liberties

Frank Fisher has a wonderful article up at the Graun.

The Indy now realises that DD has captured the public's imagination, the Times's William Rees Mogg admits his own failure to grasp the strength of public feeling and here at the Guardian, Jackie Ashley figures out what Cif's punters knew within moments of Davis's announcement – that Davis's main goal may well be to entrench Conservative support for civil liberties, directly confronting the kind of focus-group friendly policies favoured by the other Dave.
Four days it took the commentariat to grasp this simple issue that the online community figured out within 14 minutes.

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