Textual analysis

Dave has some interesting speculation about that Spectator editorial, wondering if it was written by Mark Steyn. It's interesting to note that while Boris Johnson has taken responsibility for the article as the Spectator's editor, and many of the articles on it assume he's written it, he's not said as much himself and has used 'we' rather than 'I' when discussing the creation of the editorial.

One section that Dave doesn't mention, and I think is evidence for Steyn being the principal (if not sole) author of the editorial is this line:

The deaths of more than 50 Liverpool football supporters at Hillsborough in 1989

There were actually 96 deaths at Hillsborough (a fact that can be discovered in about 2 seconds with Google) and it seems to me that only knowing that the death toll was in the high double figures is more consistent with Steyn, rather than Johnson or one of the British writes at the Spectator, being the author.