“SOMEDAY a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets.”

DAVID CAMERON, the Conservative leader, was interviewed by John Humphrys on BBC Radio 4’s Today a few days ago.

OF all the snobberies, scientific has to be the most infuriating.

By Harry McGee, Political Editor

THIRTEEN days that gripped the nation and put every other political issue on hold and suspension. Nothing else mattered during that time. It dominated the front pages and the main bulletins.

THE Fianna Fáil mutiny was as scary as being confronted in a dark alley by a flock of slaughtered sheep.