Today’s Questions

1. Is it treason to arrest someone who is 8th in the line of succession to the Throne and will the coppers involved have to arrest themselves?
2. Will someone arrested for misconduct in a public office be treated in the same way as politicians, i.e. sidelined and given a big payoff?
3. Were the cops sent in to distract attention from the mockery over Smarmer’s latest U-ey?

If only

What the headline should have said:
Why a full police inquiry into Andrew Mwah is the only way to give newspapers lots of stuff to put between the adverts

Newer is not always better

I see Corsodyl gum toothpaste has binned the update to its TV advert and gone back to the lively ‘High Five!’ lady. A very wise choice.

Easy choice

Which should we be worried about more – that our NATO ambassodor in Brussels (55, separated from his wife) is shacked up with a female assistant (29, single)? Or that he’s the sort of bloke who lets 50 pages of top secret defence documents fall out of his briefcase at a bus stop in Kent and end up in a puddle for a member of the public to find?

More ’uman rites

Three judges have ruled that the Palestine Action gang haven’t commit enough vandalism to be proscribed as terrorists. Not just yet, anyway.
    Government insiders are calling this quote bonkers unquote and the Home Sec. will appeal against the decision. Maybe she’ll be told exactly how much criminal damage constitutes terrorism. But don’t hold your breath.

Just another day

The experts have concluded that Valentine’s Day is now a bit of a drag and people wish it would go away. And if spending on it is going up by 12% this year for something people don’t enjoy; probably thanks to government tax rises; perhaps Valentine’s time has come.

No surprise

An anonymous contributor to the Daily Disaster’s letters page was surprised to find coal from the bottom of a depleted coal shed burned brighter and hotter than briquettes.
    No mystery, my fuel expert told me. Coal is mainly carbon, which is combustible. Briquettes are coal diluted with lots of cement and have a much lower fuel content.