Never trust a webbed politician

"Watching politicians getting excited about technology is always an embarrassing experience," writes Michael Parsons in this week's column. "The manifest insincerity of their attempts to pull on geekish robes is physically painful to anyone who knows what's really going on."

What provoked this rant is, of course, David Cameron's much heralded video weblog, but our correspondent is not impresed. "I suspect Cameron's entire generation are going to have to die before the bluff amateur ho-ho-ho pin stripe anti-intellectual technocontempt of him and his ilk has been bred out of the establishment gene pool," he concludes.

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