Nice and Cosy

Such is the Government's zeal to accommodate the deserving vulnerable, that a database for protecting rogue landlords remains secure after six months even in the face of ministers' famously pitiable levels of competence at operating electronic computing machines. The database does not include a single name so far, and when names are eventually added the public will not be able to see them: a measure which will free landlords across the nation from the inconvenient and humiliating need to operate in line with some arbitrary, and quite possibly foreign, standard of fitness for human habitation. Even the reasons for keeping the database secret are being kept secret, because their disclosure would darken and diminish that most luminous and inviolable guiding light of the ministerial consciousness, the public interest. The question of how many rogue landlords are supporters of the Conservative Party is, of course, unworthy of any sane and civilised political discourse.