Given that the Spycatcher case was pretty much Malc's last major worthwhile achievement, I guess it's no surprise that he's going to hark back to it. Pity no-one's given a shit about it for more than 30 years.

Plenty of immigrants are religious and/or socially conservative and will happily vote for a conservative party that isn't wildly racist against them.

Never quite understood the Edsel hate. As far as I've ever been able to see, it was a fairly typical large US sedan of its era. Sure, the nose styling was unusual, but not outlandishly so against some of the other styling motifs of the time.

Given that it's only a proper cult if the leader is fucking the entire membership, he'll probably be very successful.

The sphere of knowledge.

Then there was the...erm... problem family who moved in nearby and robbed pretty much everyone in the neighbourhood but, before they got around to us, made the rather serious error of ripping off a disabled relative of one of the local bikies and had to leave the area in a bit of a hurry.

It would take too long to detail, but I once lived next door to a prime suspect in a local serial killing case, then moved, and had a couple move in next door, the male partner of which subsequently went down for attempted murder whilst also being investigated for actual murder.

Given that the Thunderchild was, IIRC, charging the Martians, I'm a bit worried her anchor appears to be down.

You'll be fine. Although I'd stay within shufflerunning range of a toilet for the next 24 hours or so.

I'm not actually going to go and read the column, but from the heading, I assume the main thrust of it is "Nobody would be fooled because they already know Colesworths are mendacious arseholes". Otherwise known as The Fox News Defence.