Fine In his Sir: s ti cle on Liberal incompetence
lhi s in your 150th anniversary number (congratulations) Mr Auberon Waugh writes: 'Incompetence is, as I say, the moving spirit of the times. A few professions are still expected to avoid it — journalists, for instance, are still heavily penalised if, through incompetence, they publish an unprovable defamation...'
Earlier in the same piece Mr Waugh says: 'But the chief joy of the Liberal Party (which, like the Church of England, I sometimes think of joining) . . .' Can Mr Waugh prove that the Church of England sometimes thinks of joining the Liberal Party? If not, I hope he will be heavily penalised. Incompetents may not attack incompetence. Unless of course what Mr Waugh meant was that he, A. Waugh, sometimes thinks of joining the Church of England; in which case he should have found a grammatical way of saying so. Incompetence again. Fine him a butt of JM1e2areiinBmasityehYB:rooks London NW5
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