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Telegraph - ‘John is John’ - which is the best one can say of the oaf, by Tom Utley

Most of us just think that our sex-drives make idiots of us all. There is a terrible cruelty in adultery, but we all understand completely why people do it.

Mr Prescott’s affair is a matter entirely for him, for his wife and for his ex-lover. On its own, it will not register the slightest kink on an opinion pollster’s graph. “Ay oop!” a lot of people will have thought. “If even John Prescott can get a bit on the side, then perhaps there’s hope for us all!”

So, Charles may be even more suited for the job I’ve thought up for him after all? At least he’ll never be described like this:

Everybody - and I mean absolutely everybody - knows that he is a dim-witted, inarticulate, uneducated, belligerent buffoon, who would have the greatest difficulty in securing work as a night-watchman at a sock factory if he didn’t happen to be a privy councillor with a vast government department to run.

The Soviet Union was stuffed full of thick bullies like Prescott, with handsome houses and luxury limousines to whoosh them from the Moscow flat to the dacha. But he must surely hold the record for being the stupidest man ever to have held high office in the United Kingdom since the Norman Conquest. (Perhaps I am being unkind: I grant you that he has a certain charm, as no doubt Tracey Temple would once have testified.)

Please?