[...] Despite my pleasure that, for the first time in years, the Conservatives have a fighting chance of winning the next election, not least because they at last have a leader the mention of whose name doesn’t generally cause hilarity, shudders of horror, or blank incomprehension, The Conservative Party conference in Brighton seems pretty underwhelming so far, and I don’t just mean their demonstration that anything Labour can screw up, they can screw up just as badly (Beau Bo D’Or has rather a good graphic on this). [...]