Politicians will do anything to get elected or re-elected, so it is almost taken as a certainty that sometime between the London Olympics and the US Presidential elections, America will involve itself in a sexy little war with Iran that will rally the nation and help make the autocue-reading incumbent seem less of a brain-dead dweeb than he obviously is.

The war will doubtless have the ostensible goal of "demilitarizing" the Straits of Hormuz and "safeguarding the World economy," while also taking the opportunity to blow up anything that might one day help Iran impinge on Israel’s nuclear weapon monopoly in the Middle East.

Over in the UK, the anointed dweeb is still trying to get his foot in the door.

When he was chosen leader of the opposition Labour Party in 2010, Ed Miliband benefited from the fact that everybody was trying not to elect his better known brother, David, to the position. The next step to power, however, requires persuading a large proportion of the British public to vote for him.