It all comes down to mud, glorious mud

The Bugle, Times Online's satirical podcast, fires its latest written broadside The US election has now finally descended to the playground-level festival of mudslinging that it was always destined to become. As the end of a seemingly endless campaign looms, the self-styled Greatest Nation in the World is treating itself to an all-you-can-stomach trough of slur, innuendo and patent bullshit. This is inevitable even for a nation as touchingly besotted with democracy as America. As the great Jane Austen herself wrote in her school politics project: “It is a truth universally acknowledged that if you lock a campaign manager alone in a completely empty concrete room, he will, somehow, from somewhere, find some mud and sling it.” History is festooned with great figures brought down by mudslinging - dead philosophy ace Socrates,... [read full story]