I got a little bored with the expenses within a few minutes of hearing about it. It kinda seemed like one of those things that governments do to keep us entertained while something BIG is going on elsewhere. A simple distraction, if you like.

I thought that the real crime is the Whitehall back-office person/s who sold the initial data to The Telegraph. It wasn't for them to sell. And they brokered the deal using Henry Gewanter, a UK-based US PR consultant brought in to help get the data to the media.

Has there been any fuss over this? I haven't heard much of a peep apart from on Newsnight.