Why don't the spin doctors learn?

The Home Secretary has had a tough weekend.

I admire her for stating the truth, that she would be afraid to walk down a street in Hackney late at night. I think I would too. Unfortunately she did go on to say that after 10 years of a Labour the streets are safer. I know that nobody feels that way, no matter what the statistics say.

It could have been left at that, but up pops some aide to tell the press that "only the other night Ms Smith had a late night kebab in Peckham". Obviously she would have had a bodyguard with her, she is the home secretary after all, it now transpires that there is a new definition for late night. Apparently 4pm is now late night, as the owner of Katie's Kebab, Mr Ender Ginel, says that's when she appeared for a kebab. She stayed inside to eat the kebab, without chips, before leaving.

So, she wasn't quite facing the same apprehension that the rest of us face when we have a kebab at the real late night of midnight then!

Squiffy.