Not that we feel even the slightest bit of sympathy for Tax & Waste Brown, but there was just the faintest smirk on my face as I tucked into my breakfast kippers at the thought of the Scottish control freak, having coveted the top job for so long, when he finally gets it, on day one he walks right into the middle of an A-1 political sh1t storm. Cushty!

The Sepo’s Department of Justice has sought to intervene in a contract between 2 sovereign governments, which is a typical lawyers trick – I should know I spent most of yesterday in what is laughably known as a ‘conference’ with a QC, his junior, a solicitor, his assistant & some scrofulous looking yoof who just sat there saying nothing leaving me to ponder, as the Silks half hour soliloquy on the nuances of Section 38 (6) of the Planning & Compulsory Purchase Orders Act 2004 continued … & just how bad can a junior clerks skin be? Is it genetic or did he have to work at getting a complexion quite that bad?

However, to get back on something that might roughly resemble track ( did I mention how good this mornings kippers were? ) – what fun me’learned friends are going to have here. BAE, who in this instance, is only the prime contractor has been subpoenaed by the government of an unconnected third party to produce documents & just for a moment lets turn the tables.

Just for arguments sake lets say that the US has done an arms deal with somewhere reputable … how about Comumbia for example? Suddenly the Attonery General starts slapping writs all over Lockheed Martin’s London office – I wonder what the State Dept would be saying this morning?