All Clear?

So that's that, then: the sale of knighthoods and peerages is not going on. We can be sure of this, because the knighthood and peerage-strewn Metropolitan Police, and the knighthood and (soon enough) peerage-strewn Crown Prosecution Service, have told us so. What a banana republic Britain now is! Complete, of course, with John "Banana" Yates, bent and yellow.

Still, at least there was any investigation. There would have been none against a Tory Government. But how the hell did it cost a million pounds? Did they pay Ministers, senior Downing Street staffers and pop impressarios what they would have earned by the hour for the time that they were being interviewed?

Oh well, now we can forget about a Blair corruption trial with the public gallery, if not the judge, coughing "Iraq" all the way through the proceedings. Instead, we are just going to have to cut to the chase and put Blair on trial as the war criminal that he is.