Some people just don’t know when to call it a day

This photograph speaks for itself. The man can’t cope, a key member of staff has departed (“I hope he will find another good job,” Martin Scicluna says) and they are swamped with demands for accreditation from on-the-fly, hole-in-the-wall ‘colleges’ and ‘universities’ which need that all-important “accredited in the European Union” strap-line in their marketing collateral.

And they’re still taking the Jordanian University of Baksheesh seriously – with its sole two fields of study, finance and gaming, or variations thereon. Some university.

I mean, what on earth do they do for these press conferences – wheel him out and prop him up with a stanga? Used by the Labour government for its own ends and too proud and self-deluding to admit it.

Anybody who, at that level of age and experience, looked at the Labour Party and really thought it would make a terrific government by definition has severely impaired judgement.

That Labour would turn out exactly this way (worse, actually) was probably obvious even to my dogs.