If you want peerless, 24-carat, political humour, you have to read the

[Joe Chi Minh]

Daily Mail (UK). Bear in mind that this is the paper that touted Hitler and Mussolini as, not just an ultra safe pair of hands, but as the last word in excellence; and whose proprietor thought it prudent to reside permanently in Paris after the war.

Here's the Mail on Sunday's Koh-i-Noor Diamond for today, from an "article" by one, William Lowther, in Washington, on the same theme as Rees-Mogg had broached on another page:


"But since the Russian invasion of Georgia, Americans have been warming to the solid but unexciting McCain, because they believe he would hold the country in safe hands." How is he with a cup and saucer?