Rank

Like everyone else in the media, Newsnight's Stephen Smith used Ed Miliband's forthcoming wedding as an excuse to go on, and on, and on about the groom-to-be's brother, whom our lords and masters in Fleet Street and the BBC had specifically instructed the Labour Party to elect as its Leader, but the uppity oiks failed to do as they had been told.

An interviewee described that brother as "in the front rank of politics". He is no such thing. He was Foreign Secretary for a mercifully brief period. But he is now just another ex-Minister on the backbenches, generally expected to stand down at the next General Election, and widely expected to be deselected if he doesn't. Get over him.