Incredibly, in this age of cuts, bankruptcy and financial despair, there are politicians that are suggesting that what the country needs right now, is to band together and pay for a new yacht for the Royal family.  You couldn't make it up could you?  So I didn't - I just repeated the facts.

Also this week at the Leveson Inquiry into media ethics (ha!) the hunting down and pursuit of a minor royal (Pippa Middleton) by the paparazzi was making news. The untouchable hunted down by the unspeakable.