Mr(s ) Cameron's handbag

So Cameron has ‘vetoed’ the proposed new Euro-treaty.

It is the act of a man without any public principles, without any strategic grasp whatever. (So no surprise there, then). It is pantomime politics, but the ultimate price may be anything but fantasy.

He has done it for short-term party gain (as he has always played European politics). Ironically, it may in the short-term achieve some broader support – the British people, particularly the English, are in a strange state of mind now, and for the few years past.

But I sense a grand mis-step, which may not hurt Nina and me too much, but which could adversely affect Jenny and Emily, and Leo and Angharad, perhaps for the rest of their lives.