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Harriet Harman, reports the Observer, is to be questioned by police about failing to stop after a traffic accident. Or, as both the Sun and the Mirror had it, a ‘prang’.

The Labour deputy leader apparently clipped a parked car while driving through Dulwich, where she lives. Witnesses say the Leader of the House of Commons told them, ‘I’m Harriet Harman – you know where you can get hold of me,’ then drove off.

Ooh! She didn’t ought to have done that: ‘Under the 1988 Road Traffic Act, any driver involved in a collision with another vehicle is required by law to stop and give their name and address.’ So! See? That Harriet Harman broke the law. You can’t trust these politicians.

And yet, and yet… The point of giving your name and address to other parties in an accident is that they can contact you later. In conveying that she was Harriet Harman, the member for Camberwell and Peckham may have come over a bit imperious, but undeniably enabled herself to be got hold of. Had she intended to evade her responsibilities, she could very easily have shouted, ‘I’m Engelbert Humperdinck,’ or more credibly in the circumstances, ‘I’m Paris Hilton,’ or, were a sense of mischief among her vices, ‘I’m Sarah Brown.’continue reading at www.macuser.co.uk