How time flies. Is it really three years since we discussed on these pages the generosity shown by journalists to an incoming prime minister who had been plucked from their own ranks? Normally something dies in journalists when figures alongside them succeed. Peers are done down rather than bigged up. Yet the sometime Daily Telegraph columnist’s accession to power had just been greeted with acclaim by all but the liberal press. And that was before his election victory. It was almost as though proprietors had decreed positive coverage.

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长大吧

时光飞逝。自从我们在这些页面上讨论记者们对一位被从自己的队伍中抽离出来的即将上任的总理所表现出的慷慨，真的是三年了吗？通常情况下，当他们身边的人物成功时，记者们就会死去。同行被淘汰而不是扩大。然而，这位《每日电讯报》专栏作家的上台刚刚受到了除自由派媒体之外的所有人的好评。那是在他的选举胜利之前。就好像业主已经颁布了积极的报道。