Amidst all the worthy coverage in the Sunday papers of the forthcoming G20 summit, I found this story in today's Mail on Sunday somehow particularly revealing about the moral squalor enveloping this dying government.

Were any half cunning person so minded as to watch the exertions of Horst and Magda, they'd probably do so in a foreign hotel where such items are disguised on the bill. Ms Smith's husband, however, evidently didn't realise (or care) that his home viewing habits would be individually itemised, while his (Home Secretary) wife blithely submitted these bills as legitimate expenses. So now we are not just paying to house the parents of the thuggish former academic McNulty, but also the porn being consumed in the Smith household. Great.