Truth, lies, Twitter wiener and impotent Irish politicians

TRUTH and politics make strange bedfellows at the best of times.

Unfortunately, this is the worst of times, and trans-Atlantic events show us to be rather out of step with our Anglo-American cousins when it comes to facing-up to reality.

In the US the wonderfully named Congressman Anthony Weiner is in hot water for sending pictures of his, ahem, weiner via Twitter, and in Britain Tory Peer John Taylor joined a growing list of parliamentarians to end up in jail for fiddling their expenses.