It is very dreary...

...reading about the corruption in our Government. The Home Secretary is some one called Jacqui Smith, and she has been pretending that her sister's house in London, where she sometimes sleeps during the week, is her main home, because that way she can claim some sort of extra funding, for her actual home, which she shares with her husband and children and of course spends most of her time. This sort of thing would, just a few years ago, have been a resigning matter. But not now.