"But Lord McAlpine's barrister, Sir Edward Garnier QC, said only "a moron in a hurry" or an "anchorite in a sealed cave" would have been unfamiliar with the context in which the tweet was published."
Listening to the cricket over the weekend, a commentator mentioned the famous insult from a few years back aimed at Phil Tufnell who was fielding, by an Austrailian cricket fan in the crowd nearby.
'Hey Tuffers - lend us your brain, we're building an idiot'!
I rather liked the following, quoted in Steven Pinker's book 'The seven words you can't say on television', attributed to Lyndon Johnson speaking of a particularly dim aide:
"He wouldn't know how to pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were printed on the heel".
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