Maurice Saatchi takes the Tories to task

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We find it rich that Tory grandee Maurice Saatchi now laments the outcome of the recent general election in Great Britain, regretting his failure to overturn “the fiction of the focus groups” in politics. (Isn’t this the same guy who, after helping to elect Maggie Thatcher as prime minister in 1979, introduced such American-style focus groups into U.K. politics as a way to keep her in power?) The former chairman of the U.K.’s Conservative party is now going

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