Moral ignorance on a staggering scale

David Davis MP appears to have been so disgusted by the notion of extending preventive jail from 28 to 42 days (an extra two weeks) that he resigns to fight a by-election over it.

He apparently did not consider that the law, or rather "law", that allows the hybridization of human and animal cells was not so serious. He made no such fuss then, when the immorality of Gordon Brown compassed most of those who heard of it with a shudder.

I hope this man is a posturing mountebank. Because if he is serious and means what he says, then his complete inability to distinguish moral issues is horrifying in a politician who claims to be Conservative. Not, of course, in the least surprising, but horrifying nevertheless.

Mal comune mezzo gaudio

Well, not exactly. That's a mean-spirited proverb. But I have to say that at least we did not get one of our men sent off like tbe unfortunate Germans. And do you begin to suspect that some teams are playing outdated defence strategies? The Croats' second goal was a major failure in the offside trap. Back to the drawing board, everyone.