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Letters – August 2026
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Driving Nowhere
Peter Oborne has noticed Nick Ferrari’s egregious partiality in his encounters with Nigel Farage (‘Diary: Ferrari’s Easy Ride’, 19 June 2026). When Keir Starmer was on his show, Ferrari brought up the then Leader of the Opposition’s schooling, because for a certain kind of right-winger it is hypocritical for a left-winger to have had any kind of privilege, even one provided by the state.
Ferrari was clearly banking on Starmer gliding over his grammar school background, but Starmer quite rightly mentioned it in his answer. This did not stop Ferrari from going on a victory lap, by way of a retrospective gotcha! – saying ‘yes, you went to a grammar school’, as if it were a matter of shame.
This pathetic man backed Brexit, Johnson, Trump, and Farage, and every one of his enthusiasms has fallen to bits. But Ferrari, the bao bun of British broadcasting, sits atop the steaming pile, prejudices intact, his ignorance supreme.
