You may remember the waves of tedium that spread across the world when the Times of London revealed recently that ExxonMobil had given some money to “global warming denier” groups. An epidemic of stifled yawns threatened to cripple humanity even as alarmists whooped in delight that the oil industry had finally got its comeuppance. At EUReferendum, however, that spoilsport Christopher Booker suggests that the story did not give the whole picture:

How The Times’s front-page headline might rather more relevantly have been re-worded was “Governments, foundations, multi-national corporations including the owners of this newspaper and Big Oil give hundreds of billions of pounds to promote worldwide climate bonanza.” But doubtless The Times’s editors would have ruled that this was too long for their front page.

Didn’t he get the memo?