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11 September 2009

Vince Cable, Shell and his defenders in the press

Martin Waller gets it wrong

By Mehdi Hasan

I have dissected the so-called “cult of Cable” in this week’s magazine. Having been suitably briefed by Vince’s people, Martin Waller, City diarist for the Times, calls my piece an “astonishing hatchet job” on the Lib Dems’ “Shadow Chancellor”:

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