Unbalanced Britain

I don't know about you, but I don't feel any better about Britain after the newspapers revealed the scale of thievery within our political class and now the inquiries promised into the newspapers. Horrible though the phone hacking scandal is, it is not life or death. The politicians pretty much dodged the scandal on expenses, except that people hate them that bit more, as they have rejigged the rules and carry on as before. Even where criminality has been proven (such as with Ed Balls' tax declarations) nothing happens.

Now the political class are in a frenzy on our behalf to leave no stone unturned over phone hacking. Not, you understand about how we went to war in Iraq, not so that a very strange death of a public servant is properly investigated, not on anything of real substance, but just phone hacking. Investigate, properly (should there be another way?) and use the laws that already exist to deal with the perpetrators. And stop all the loud politicking.