Mind your language

OUR readers continue to be shocked and appalled by politics in all its disreputable and Machiavellian manifestations, especially the case of the Tory MP who was caught watching rude videos on his phone while in the House of Commons. He later claimed he only stumbled upon such mucky material because he was searching for tractor websites.

Reader Kenneth Watkins is struggling to decide how this scandal should be labelled.

“We can’t call it Tractor-gate,” he points out, “because that would be just a gate.”