Damn it, I've missed another gravy train....

In the big world outside it is now clear that the loonies have taken over the nuthouse.

All kinds of big-shots, from the Arch of Canterbury to the Mayor of London have got involved in a totally daft debate about whether a BA woman can wear a crucifix around her neck.

The issue is very simple. Where a uniform is provided and there is a ‘no personal adornment’ condition that is the end of the story.  Otherwise BA is out of order. End of debate. But, of course, the unspoken issue is that this is seen as discrimination against a Christian that would not be applied to a Muslim.

Then we have the Gestapo dawn raid to arrest the former editor of the News of the World and her husband over the phone-tapping scandal, when the Old Bill could have done this at a civilised hour. They could have saved themselves the trouble and simply asked the pair to come down to the local nick. But that wouldn’t have got the media coverage, would it! The Met needs all the good publicity it can get.

Just to keep us worried the medical profession is now saying that eating red meat, bacon and sausages can cause heart problems and the dental profession saying that the medical profession’s recommendation that we eat 5 portions of fruit and veg a day will make our teeth fall out.

We have had the toe-curling spectacle of the Cameron/Obama love-in and more bollox about the ‘special relationship’, with little George Osborne tagging along when he should have been back in the Treasury cooking the books.

Special relationship? The only US/UK special relationship that I can think of was between Ike and Kate Summersby.

Then there’s an unknown Congolese who had a heart attack getting day after day of headline TV and newspaper coverage. Why? Because he plays football. Meanwhile, in Europe the result of the EU ban on hen batteries is that there is now a shortage of eggs and the price has gone up by 30%. Not that this would worry the Eurocrats. They have just had a ruling from the ECJ that their big pay-rise is protected by law; this includes the pay of the ECJ judges!

And the ‘European External Action Service’, prop. ‘Lady’ Ashton, is growing apace. It now has an annual budget not unadjacent to £6 bn and 137 Embassies. It will have 46 diplomats in Barbados, 53 in Madagascar, and 39 in Mauritius. Damn and blast it; another gravy train that I missed!

Truly those whom the gods wish to destroy.....