Words fail ...

... Don’t cry at political scandal. It could be verse. (Hat tip, Paul Davis.)

The Princess and the President is a toe-curler. It is breathless, pretentious, inadvertently hilarious and monumentally self-regarding. But it is also rather magnificent, a demonstration of the melodrama that still animates the soul of French politics, and a taste for showing off that British politics has sadly lost.

Clearly, too many French politicians have been educated beyond their intelligence.