You know they’re in trouble when the cheap PR tactics become REALLY cynical

Besieged by cries of corruption and scandal from all sides? Your cabinet ministers going down like skittles? Your chief of staff gone AWOL in a sea of offshore companies?

Have one of your many communications aides call in an organ donor form, sit down in your chi-chi office, summon a Department of Information photographer, and fill it in. Then tweet it with a careless remark that unwittingly gives away what you think of the magnitude of your actions: “It takes so little…”.

As H. P. Baxxter said to me in a WhatsApp a couple of minutes ago: “So they won’t be needing any testicles, then.”