It's not for nothing that the summer months are known by journalists as the "silly season."
With little to report and fill the news columns of their esteemed papers, the members of the Fourth Estate are forced to plumb the depths for new stories that would never normally see the light of day, and some of our elected representatives at the other end of their parliamentary blackberries are more than happy to provide the illumination.
The latest of these is the apparent suggestion from SNP MSP Christine Grahame that the UK army garrison at Edinburgh Castle should be "evicted" from their historic quarters unless they agree to fly the saltire. Last week it was Labour MSP David Stewart who pledged to press the Home Office to try and get a work permit for a Bulgarian football player who has been signed by Caledonian Thistle Football Club.
Now Mr Smith realised that sometimes politicians must sully their hands with popular culture but he objects to them doing it on issues that are so irrelevant to their average constituents as to be demeaning to their elected office. Perhaps the solution would be to give them recesses that don't last two months?
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