Rex Murphy's Point of View.............Dingwall Affair

"What the Dingwall affair tells us is that the instinct dies slowly; that on the grandest scale, and on the pettiest — from a severance package for a patronage appointment, to the chewing gum freebie — in some quarters the lesson just hasn't sunk in.

And for those who thought the long summer had, in that ridiculous cant phrase, "put Gomery behind us" that pack of gum may be just the perfect fuse for Justice Gomery's canon."