Conspiracy? It just doesn’t add up

IF YOU haven’t already, I urge you to buy a copy of my colleague Quentin Letts’s hilarious new book, Patronising Bastards: How The Elites Destroyed Britain.

For one thing Polly Toynbee absolutely hates it, which is as good a guarantee of quality as you will ever get.

For another, it has the funniest and most politically incorrect description of Camila Batmanghe- lidjh you will ever read. She, you may remember, was the woman behind Kids Company — a charity that claimed to be helping turn around the lives of tens of thousands of children.

In reality, Batmanghelidjh was presiding over a chaotic organisation which went bust two years ago, shortly after the Cabinet Office had approved a new Government grant of £3 million. Now Batmanghelidjh is back, promoting her own book, Kids, and claiming that the revelations (unearthed by Newsnight) that led to her downfall were all part of a Government conspiracy.

Quite why a Government would want to bring down an organisation in which it had already invested £47million of taxpayers’ money is anyone’s guess. But logic was never Batmanghelidjh’s forte.