Talk about rewarding failure.

My beloved wife told me last evening that this blog is becoming a series of rants. Well, I apologise in advance, but this is another one. A Peerage for Sir Ian Blair, the former Metropolitan Police Commissioner is the latest news to raise my blood pressure.

This is a man who led the shambolic police service during the disastrous episode that ended in the killing of Jean-Charles De Menezes. The rest of the world will wonder what on earth we are up to.