Andrew Roberts

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MPs’ endless inanities on Twitter risk dispelling the mystique of parliament <div></div>|MPs’ endless inanities on Twitter risk dispelling the mystique of parliament

issue 02 June 2012

‘You know, if becoming an MP has taught me one thing it’s respect, admiration for political opponents,’ tweeted Louise Mensch, the Tory MP for Corby, last week. ‘My Labour colleagues best people ever.’ It’s ironic that she should have vouchsafed these thoughts in a tweet, because it is Twitter that is fast destroying whatever respect or admiration one might once have felt for politicians, by revealing the sheer bathos of so many of their lives.

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