By James Chapman Where the City’s top thinkers have their say. Today, James Chapman, director of Soho Communications takes the pen to talk the internet, the boat race and getting big money out of politics. It’s time to accept that political parties need to be funded by the stateJust before the Easter weekend, Rishi Sunak sneaked out an announcement of a knighthood for Mohamed Mansour, a senior Treasurer for the Conservative Party who just happened to have given it £5m last year. Typically, lists of people who have received honours are published at New Year and on the King’s official birthday i…