Why is Shami annoying? I guess it’s hard to explain if you can’t already see it. Just think: head girl, teacher’s pet, Little Miss Goody Two-Shoes, the Mother Teresa of British politics, that sort of thing. An unbelievably sanctimonious and tiresome lady.

Mystery mozzi how I hear you buzzing, waiting, watching, hungry and sad, but tonight sweet mozzi i must confess, I've laid a trap to end distress...beware my friend, soft slipper awaits, fly away free and never return.....bzzzbbzzzzzzbbzzzzz.....

Doubtless it’s too much to hope that this Prime Minister would be motivated by principle to defend the interests of his country (even though BP is certainly to be criticised). But one might have thought that even he might have noticed by now that Obama has morphed from Jesus to Icarus, and has plunged to earth with wings clogged with oil as the American public registers its fury with the way he has mishandled the crisis. Now that the Mail has blown a gasket and gone for Cameron, he may alter his tone. But at present, Britain’s Prime Minister and Britain’s interests are not on the same page.

I share the thought that the American revolution was a struggle between English gentleman and the German mercenaries of a German King. I have always thought that the great British mistake of that era was not to have created a United Kingdom Of Great Britain and America with its capital in New York. That could have changed the world!

As for the Heathrow runway, the prospects of Paris, Amsterdam and other continental airports taking business from our airports were bad enough already as BA continues to inflict self harm, but they are now quite alarming. Preventing passengers from flying to London will not prevent many of them from flying. They will just fly to continental airports on continental airlines instead.

Over the years the relationships between the media elite and the two main political parties have become closer and closer to the point where, now, one is indistinguishable from the other. Indeed, it is difficult not to think that the lunatics have stopped writing about the asylum and have actually taken it over.

Anyone with a mind to contend timidly that liberty is indivisible, that the life of a human being has the same value everywhere, that amputating a thief’s hand or stoning an adulteress is intolerable everywhere, is duly arraigned in the name of the necessary equality of cultures. As a result, we can turn a blind eye to how others live and suffer once they’ve been parked in the ghetto of their particularity. Enthusing about their inviolable differentness alleviates us from having to worry about their condition. However it is one thing to recognise the convictions and rites of fellow citizens of different origins, and another to give one’s blessing to hostile insular communities that throw up ramparts between themselves and the rest of society. How can we bless this difference if it excludes humanity instead of welcoming it? This is the paradox of multiculturalism: it accords the same treatment to all communities, but not to the people who form them, denying them the freedom to liberate themselves from their own traditions. Instead: recognition of the group, oppression of the individual. The past is valued over the wills of those who wish to leave custom and the family behind...