EXTRAORDINARY EXPLANATIONS OF RECENT EVENTS:
I've just heard someone from the Labour party saying that the reason why there's so much about the Tessa Jowell story isn't because her husband has done anything wrong having his mortgage paid off by Berlusconi, but because... the media like putting "photogenic women" on the front page.
Tessa Jowell: she's the Kate Moss of the cabinet...
Actually, her husband was doorstepped by the 10 O'clock news last night, and denied the money had come from Berlusconi at all - when asked, not unreasonably, who had suddenly given him six hundred grand, he replied 'wait and see', like it's going to be a surprise. It's hard to imagine who could be so very bad that he decided to pretend to his own accountant he'd taken dropsy from a foreign politician.