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William Hague was crazy to share a room with a young man

William Hague sharing hotel with his male aide? It should be a storm in a complimentary teacup but it is a real threat to the Foreign Secretary’s career. The lewd imputation made by bloggers is that twin beds might have been pushed together and that the aide’s appointment was due to favouritism. Everyone recognises, when they are pressed to be sensible about it, that people who share a bedroom or even a bed might not be in a relationship. That won’t help him at all.

FAR TOO LATE, THE PENNY DROPS ON TAX FOR DARLING

FOR many years economists have known that taxation does more harm than good if pushed too high.

Brussels must not restart the war on the motorist

ONE of the best things the new Government has done so far is to proclaim an end to the spirit-sapping war on the motorist instigated by labour. transport Secretary Philip Hammond declared that the era of treating drivers as the enemy of society was over. in a fully functioning democracy such a statement would have been followed by policies to make good that promise while any ideas that imperilled it would have been abandoned.

Not so wild about Harry

PRINCE Harry is one of those royals who does not always make headlines for the right reasons. His errors of judgment to date include making a racially insulting comment to a fellow soldier and dressing up as an SS officer for a fancy dress party.

Plan to share our navy with France is an abomination

IT'S early autumn 2015 and the Royal Navy’s exciting new fleet-share partnership with the French navy – first proposed by British Prime Minister David Cameron and French president Nicolas Sarkozy five years earlier as part of an ambitious, innovative and, some would say, suicidally stupid cost-cutting measure – has run into its first major obstacle.