NEWS ROUNDUP

The Clegg cover-up was not a cover-up, just something he hoped would go away if he ignored the complaints. Politician lies. Dog bites man.

Cardinal Keith O'Brien, a dirty old man, has given Celtic supporters a headache. Orange bigots are going to have a new repertoire of songs and chants about another bigot of the wrong religion.

John Kerry is on a tour of Europe and the Middle East, kidding us that we are of the slightest interest to his compatriots. He's got things in the wrong order; he should find out from the Israelis what American foreign policy is before he tells the British government what IT'S foreign policy is.
He'll soon be filmed for posterity doing the western politicians' Via Dolorosa; the Wailing Wall in the requisite silly headgear, the Holocaust Museum. He will be suitably chastened, and declare himself poor endangered Israel's best friend forever. The fact that Kerry's family was from Central Europe and originally surnamed Cohen certainly means that the Mark Regevs of this world can't tell him anything about the Shoah. No matter, he'll be there as a representaive of the blood-libellers who let it happen, and he must have his nose rubbed in it.