Hugo Rifkind Hugo Rifkind

I’m too busy to set up schools and regulate industries. Isn’t that what governments are for?

issue 22 October 2011

How long do you suppose it takes Chris Huhne to shop for the most competitive energy bill for all seven of his houses? Ages, I reckon. If he had been driving during that infamous speeding incident on the M11 — and everyone knows, of course, that he wasn’t — then this would surely have been why.

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