Inflation Conquered

Despite the chance of setting a dangerous international precedent for the suppression of media scrutiny, the Conservatives have reduced the price of covering their annual rah-and-blah to an amount only slightly in excess of what the experience is likely to be worth. Charges of between £137 and £880 were imposed last year for the privilege of practising journalism upon the Party conference, leading media organisations to complain that lesser breeds may, as usual, take a moral lesson from Global Britain's mother of democracies. There will now be no charge for media attendance at the Götterdämmerung, which is likely to make four October days in Manchester an even more luminous prospect than it sounds.