There’s trouble in Greenland. Who knew? Apparently, the government has fallen because of a row over the decision by a senior civil servant to summon a “healer” to drive evil spirits and “negative energy” out of government offices in Greenland’s capital, the marvelously monosyllabic Nuuk.

Evil spirits? Negative Energy? It’s just so much merde, but don’t tell Cherie Blair, wife of poor old Tony. She’s famous for her ‘bio-electric’ pendant filled with ‘magic crystals’ designed to ward off harmful rays from computers and mobile phones. More recently, she has, reportedly, taken to chatting to the dead, a weakness of another ‘first lady’ that I could mention. What is wrong with these people?

My own personal favorite tale of such madness comes from this account (recounted with relish in the Blair-hostile Daily Mail) of Tony and Cherie on holiday in Mexico:

“They stripped to their swimming costumes for a rebirthing ceremony in which they screamed in a special hut as they smeared each other with mud from the jungle, together with water melon and papaya, while ancient Mayan songs were chanted.”

So much for the Enlightenment.