I swear by Almight God to tell lies, a tissue of lies and nothing but lies

COMMENT: THE LEVESON SHOW.

Are you still interested in the Leveson enquiry? You should be. In the hallowed halls near Westminster, we are seeing a fascinating window into modern societal mores.

Yesterday we saw 2 senior politicians lying persistently to paint themselves in a more favourable light, which I suppose is why most of us tell lies. Gordon Brown said he never briefed against other ministers when he was in power (lie) and even said he never hatched plans to spring a general election in the autumn of 2007 (another lie, proved by labour party accounts which show they spent hundreds of thousands on the scheme before it was later shelved) and that he wasn't close to the Murdochs, even though their children played together frequently.

Then George Osborne said he wasn't really interested in who won the bid to buy BSkyB, which is a bit odd considering his job description, which I would have thought said something about taking an interest in business deals involving tens of billions of pounds. If the Chancellor of the Exchequer isn't interested in such things, he bloody well should be.

I never thought I'd say this, but I've almost got more respect for the scabrous press barons, Dacre and Desmond, who quite openly stated that their only interest was in turning a healthy profit, and bugger the ethics. At least they were honest...