I imagine InsaneApache and English Assassin wouldn't read the Independent if they were tortured with a damp halibut and a stick of celery, but they, and others, might appreciate this cutting piece on the fin de siecle of the UK's current "government".

Warning to foreigners: Contains explicit cricket references.

So there we are – back in 1997 none of us, not the most cynical, realised that a New Labour government would end up being chastised for being too pro-war and pro-America, on Test Match Special by Geoffrey bloody Boycott. No wonder they're shafted.