By J.C. | CAMBRIDGE
IF YOU bought a copy of The Times today, cut out and keep a copy of Matthew Parris’s column. In it, he describes the Clacton by-election as a battle between the Conservatives, Labour and UKIP for the dying parts of England, those end-of-the-line towns (literally, in the many seaside cases) where people go to retire, not to aspire nor to achieve. The Manichean scheme that he paints sums up the debate that will surely decide the future of England’s politics.
