Well do let me help you, Iains. First, the Guardian is very far from being a staunch Labour paper. No way. I've been taking the Guardian for over forty years and, my God, how it has so often frustrated me. Second, the item you pasted a lump from, but failed to attribute, was penned by John Crace. His role in the Grauniad is always to take a light-hearted and sarcastic view of politics (and his "digested read" is a sine qua non, by the way). He's my favourite and I never miss his articles. But he is in no way a heavyweight political commentator, Iains. John is all about fun and light-hearted piss-takes. The trouble with you is the same as the trouble with those guys who quote from the Bible. They quote stuff, often without attribution (as in your case), without understanding either the sentiment or the context of what they're quoting. I can tell you for nothing that Diane would have loved his piece (and almost certainly will have read it).

So you don't think it's demeaning to comment on her "behaviour." Well, she told us she had a migraine atttack. Well I have two friends who are prone to migraines and I experience migraine auras myself on occasion. It is not very nice. Life grinds to a halt and there is nothing you can do about it. You are prejudging her. She's a bit of a leftie so she must have been coming the old soldier with her migraine. Well let me tell you something, Iains. You don't know that. I don't know that. Nothing in her behaviour over the 24 hours before her migraine militates against what she's told us. And for you to imply that is pathetic - and totally in character, sadly, as you've demonstrated a few times here recently.