Have mercy on Pinocchi-Joe

Shame on us. We may have kept the flame alive for John F Kennedy this week, but the other JFK was on his own.

It was open season on Joe Effing Kinnear and there was scarcely a murmur of protest from his home place.

Even allowing for their grand tradition of hatchet jobs and the colourful scorn they have poured on some of their own great servants over the years; the English media have rarely turned so unanimously and viciously on one man over so little.