One of the main reasons why I took the decision to scrap my old website and start over, as opposed to simply altering its focus, was the dawn of my new-found apolitical nature. This change didn’t happen overnight – if anything, it was a long time coming – but when it struck, it struck hard.

Simply put, the UK Parliamentary expenses scandal of 2009 irrevocably killed my interest in all things political, thereby rendering my site completely irrelevant. Although I knew I wanted to maintain an Internet presence of some sort, and my abject hatred for social networking sites meant that a stripped-down blog was always going to be the best way forward, the days of getting pissed off over something Bush, Blair, Brown or Obama thought, said or did were well and truly over.

Nowadays, the closest I get to paying attention to what’s going on in the realm of politics, on either side of the proverbial pond, involves watching Real Time With Bill Maher; even so, I couldn’t help but take a perverse sense of delight in watching the whole News International debacle unfold over the past few weeks.

Can it really be long before the Cameron-Clegg house of cards comes tumbling down around their ears? Here’s hoping. Will the loathsome Piers “Morgan” Moron lose his comfortable CNN job over allegations that he, too, was involved in this unsavory practice during his time with Trinity Mirror? Fingers crossed. Are Rupert Murdoch’s salad days really numbered? Let us pray (metaphorically, of course).

Sure, for every self-serving, cretinous little weasel who’s forced to commit figurative seppuku over this fiasco, a dozen more lie in wait, ready to resume the current status quo as soon as the dust has settled. We’ll never get ‘em all, but it sure is fun to try every now and again.