A US President asked one oil company to do what his own Government has never done in similar circumstances: pay for the mess. A leading Spanish finance minister said Spain would ‘need only a third’ of even its own bailout fund, let alone the EU version. The Syrian President called Israel ‘a pyromaniac State’ and said that Turkey turning towards the Islamists was ‘a Western invention’. Of course it is dear, of course it is.

In the States, the GOP was ‘incandescent’ about the Democrat’s trying to ‘shake BP down’, following which leading committee member Republican Bart Stupak said Mr Hayward would be “sliced and diced”….before he’d heard the evidence.

Entirely predictably, republicans in northern Ireland began legal moves to charge Bloody Sunday soldiers with murder following the government Report earlier in the week.

Car production rose by 54% in May and by 62.6% on the year, according to figures from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders – a fascinating development given that Britain has no car industry.

The National Institute for medication rationing, sorry, Clinical Excellence, described sex education as “more effective if it is introduced before young people first have sex”. Hard to argue with that one.

And in another comradely development, leading contenders for the Labour leadership, brothers David and Ed Miliband, are accused of briefing against one another. Greater love hath no man that he lay down his brother for his life.

There’ve been very few posts today because I had nothing of value to add to the baseless bollocks apparent everywhere. Perhaps the situation will change this evening.