Hawking in thick of a witch Hunt
The most bizarre row of the summer has been between Jeremy Hunt and Stephen Hawking over the NHS, with the Health Secretary accusing the professor of peddling a “pernicious falsehood” for saying the Tory cherrypicks his statistical data.
It’s so hard to guess which one has got the maths right.
Is it the esteemed quantam physicist who is widely hailed as one of the most brilliant scientists Britain has ever produced?
Or the gormless-looking, privatising stooge, who was once described to me by a well-known writer who met him while Culture Secretary as: “Without doubt, the thickest man in a suit that I’ve ever had a conversation with. There is nothing going on behind the eyes. It’s like trying to get through to a mollusc in a coma.”
Tough call.