Does the Independent on Sunday need a sense-of-humour injection, or was it being deliberately obtuse? Monkey only asks after it pulls up Richard Bacon for offering "glowing praise" for David Cameron in a column in the Sun. "That's the sort of many we should have leading the country," it quotes Bacon. "A bright, intelligent, dynamic, handsome man we really respect and admire who would be a brilliant prime minister." Strong stuff! Lacking just one thing, it turns out - context. Here's Bacon on Cameron in full: "I've just started a new job at BBC 5 Live – I've taken over from Simon Mayo at 2pm, Monday through Thursday, and I'm loving it. On my first show, I sat down for an hour-long interview with David Cameron. Don't know if you heard the show, but I know what a lot of you are thinking: 'That's the sort of man we should have leading this country. A bright, intelligent, dynamic, handsome man we really respect and admire who would be a brilliant prime minister.' And it's very kind of you to say so, and I'm very flattered, honestly I am, but I'm happy just doing the show for the time being. But thanks, it really means a lot that you think so highly of me." Not so much "glowing praise" as ... a joke.
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