Incredibly, the Harry scandal rumbles on in Europe. Le Monde is now suggesting that it may hit London’s chances of ‘winning’ the right to host the 2012 Olympics. That would be no bad thing for London, but perhaps Le Monde might explain how Harry’s gaffe compares with the persistent support (15% or so) in France or the National Front, a political party headed by a man on record as regarding the Holocaust as a ‘detail’.

Motes and beams, eh, messieurs?