Peter Wilby has in today’s Guardian produced the most sensible column I have yet read on the state of the Brown administration’s current mauling at the hands of the meeja:

Personal data goes through the unregistered post every day. Bank statements contain sort codes and account numbers; notifications of pension increases include national insurance numbers. Almost certainly, many thousands go to the wrong addresses. In normal times, nobody thinks anything of it… [The British press] lacks a sense of proportion and its barbs are sometimes ill-directed… [Brown] may still win the next election, but the press will give him as rough a ride over the next few years as it gave John Major.

There may be a lot of meeja froth about at the moment, but I’m all in favour of anything that gets Vinny ‘Light Fandango’ Cable on the telly most nights: I’ve often wondered what happened to Penfold once Danger Mouse ended.