Andrew Mitchell was hoist by the paranoid establishment’s own petard | Simon Jenkins

The former chief whip lost his rag when confronted by sheer bureaucratic idiocy, but it is politicians who are behind our extravagant security-industrial complex

The toffs are revolting. Tory ex-minister David Mellor finds taxi-drivers intolerable, Labour MP Emily Thornberry is shocked by proletarian Anglophilia, and former chief whip Andrew Mitchell is driven to fury by a Downing Street cop. What is the matter with them?

Mitchell was the most reckless of all. He went to court and encountered t...