Nick Clegg, leader of the Liberal Democrats (the UK’s third party) today issued a call for all MPs to be shot once in the leg, in order to prevent them from considering ever doing anything bad ever again.

The small war in Saint Paul, Minnesota’s capital, looks almost about to end, after the lengthy recount in the junior Senate seat there, now apparently finally final, gives victory to humourist and left-media pundit Al Franken. Franken’s campaign has now claimed victory, with Republican candidate and incumbent Norm Coleman’s team telling anyone who’ll listen that [...]