ACCORDING to 87% of people surveyed in a British newspaper poll, the butler definitely did not do it.

USUALLY, good advice is that when you realise you’re in a hole, you should stop digging.

IF revenge is a dish best eaten cold, then George Dubya Bush is making a meal out of freezing ‘old Europe’ out of the lucrative contracts on the table for the reconstruction of Iraq.

WAS it a Budget that Charlie McCreevy produced on Wednesday?

POSSIBLY the best piece of news that came over the radio for a long time was the announcement that Ray Burke was handed a tax bill for 2 million.

SINCE he started the war in Iraq, the nearest George Wubya Bush came to being under fire — friendly or otherwise — was the 41-gun salute he was given on arrival in London.

THE British Tory Party is leaderless at the moment, rather like this country.

IF Gerry Adams were to swear allegiance to the queen, join the Police Service of Northern Ireland and lead an Orange parade down the Garvaghy Road, then maybe — just maybe — David Trimble might be satisfied.

I WAS suffering under the delusion, probably like most other people in the private sector, that the secretive benchmarking deal for workers in the public sector was supposed to result in productivity and improved services.