Kim-Il McConnell

So the Americans have been spying on Scottish politics and seem to rate Scotland as being progressively more left wing as the years pass.

Now, I'd hardly place Jack McConnell up there with Kim-Il Jung of North Korea; and not as dangerous as Col Qadaffi; and hardly as nasty as the Ayatollahs.

Indeed, I'd place Jack somewhere between the Teletubbies and the Tweenies in his threat to world peace.

The Yanks - being Yanks - take it very seriously, and will continue to monitor events. So, no dissent over there, please, or we may join the axis of evil; which now seems to cover most countries that aren't actually brown-nosing Bush.