So I was just flicking idly through a routine briefing from the party, when I found myself reading the following sentence:

”¢ A report by the government’s Chief Scientist, Sir David King, is calling for a cull of badgers in some areas affected by Bovine Tony Blair.

I didn’t immediately clock at it first, but something didn’t sound quite right in the sentence so I looked at it again more carefully.

“Bovine Tony Blair”? That sounded pretty abusive for an internal party document so what did it mean? Our former Prime Minister wandering the nation behaving in a cow-like fashion?

A minute’s reflection gave the answer. Presumably the story is in fact about tuberculosis in cattle, or “Bovine TB” - and someone still has a shortcut programmed into their computer to expand automatically from the abbreviation of the former Prime Minister’s initials…

He may be gone but it’s good to know he is still…being blamed for attacking badgers!