Those Gore stories sound like just the thing he needed to confess to in order to dispel that stuffy image. Pothead Al Gore and a biker chick... Naah, if that was true he'd have talked about it. And talked about it.

Along those lines, over here the Tory caretaker leader, William Hague (in case people haven't heard of him, which seems likely enough) has been trying to make play with the admission that he used to drink 14 pints a day when he were a lad. But it somehow just seems a bit ridiculous. Hague and fourteen pints of Yorkshire beer somehow doesn't sound raunchy, it just sounds absurd. You get the vision of him puking in a gutter at the end of the evening. Instead of Slick Willie, itt's Sick Willie.