The horror or Broken Britain continues this week.

First we learn that hacking the Gibson is becoming ever more common, then we learn that Cherie Blair’s friends are terrorising the elderly residents of a tranquil Gloucestershire village every day.

Among the hardworking Britons to attack Cherie Blair’s friends terrorising the elderly residents of a tranquil Gloucestershire village was Richard Littlejohn who today said read my lips; no new taxes.