Wales is ready to fight the austerity imposed by Westminster
It's a little like being a schizophrenic looking at the world through Alice's looking-glass, being Sir Merrick Cockell.
Royal Dutch Shell's latest profit bonanza will anger Morning Star readers, petrol-tanker drivers and motorists more generally.
In the same week that a poll by the cross-party-backed Hansard Society showed popular interest in politics at rock bottom we get more evidence of precisely why.
Additional pressure on housing supply caused by the siting of the London Olympics may have played its part in causing the immediate crisis in the borough of Newham, but the problem is much more widespread.
Outgoing French head of state Nicolas Sarkozy has plumbed the electoral depths as the first incumbent president under the Fifth Republic set up by General de Gaulle in 1958 to lose the initial round of his re-election bid.
The decision to go ahead with yesterday's Bahrain Grand Prix brought shame on the sport of Formula One and on its supremo Bernie Ecclestone.
If the mark of a civilised society is how it treats its most vulnerable members, then Britain has a long way to ride in the civilisation stakes.
Children's Minister Sarah Teather insists that a final decision on eligibility for free school meals will only be made following consultations later this year.
Foreign Secretary William Hague has clearly forgotten the first rule in politics - when you're in a hole, stop digging.

