Guido on left-wing hypocrisy:

Left-wing and Green bloggers have been banging on about how Iain Dale and other Tory bloggers don’t toe the official Conservative Party policy line on on the environment, as if they think the honest heterodoxy of the Tory blogosphere is a bug, not a feature. 

Except that earlier today it read …tow the line…

A point not lost on his eagle-eyed readers, including one (Number 7) who offers this useful information:

“Toe the line” is very closely related to “Coming up to scratch”. Both are terms that were used in prize fighting. When a fighter was knocked down the round ended and after, I think it was, a minute each fighter had be able to stand up and “come to scratch” ( A line drawn in the ring ) and be fit to “toe the line”. Nothing to do with pulling Becket’s caravan.

Helpful.