14 NOVEMBER 1998, Page 32

Works Outing

NOW that the Labour Party is more of a Works Outing, I miss the sure touch Of Kelvin MacKenzie. He is busy with his new' toy, Talk Radio, where he has marked his arrival by sacking the managing director, the commercial director and the head of programming. The Sun, which he edited in its fullest effulgence, now wants to know Li we are being run by a gay mafia, and has put up the headline TELL US THE TRUTH TONY. You see what I mean? Tasteful. In Kelvin's day it would have been BACKS TO THE WALL, CHAPS.