Tony Benn: kindly, old, contemptible.

Normally I'm against capital punishment. But I do sometimes wonder whether we should make an exception for MPs. Especially when I'm reading interviews with Tony Benn.

There was yet another one with the tiresome class traitor this weekend by the excellent Nigel Farndale. In it, Benn declared: "I am kindly and old. But I am not harmless." Quite. This apparently amiable, charming, and well-preserved pipe smoker has been a menace to society for well over half a century. So why do so many fruitcakes g