From the language of spin to plain old English, “personal tragedy” roughly translates as “what a pity he got found out” while “good and honourable man” translates literally to “thanks for falling on your sword and getting us all off the hook mate”.

A few hours stuck in a car and it’s the end of the world as we know it. If there were Winter Olympic medals for whinging Britain would clean up.

Labour’s leaders should have seen the Norwich North debacle coming. After all, they have had plenty of warning.

A half-decent bit of weather and people still complain - only in England.

It’s been a good few days for short men.

Labour was always likely to have a very bad time in European and local elections. But it made its own situation far worse by acting like a divided rabble in the run up to polling day.

If there had been any doubt that large numbers of people are prepared to watch almost anything the success of Big Brother dispelled it.

Around one in three people will vote in the European Elections. They will have a lots of things on their minds - but generally not Europe.

The expenses of politicians will always be an issue until we bite the bullet and pay them proper saleries.

Nobody expects Members of Parliament to have a lifetime of real world experience, but it would be nice to think they had some!