It’s typical: we get Ann Widdecombe while the Ukrainians get Yulia Timoshenko.

Next time anyone complains about Blair being image-obsessed I’m just going to point them towards Yulia’s capacious online album. I love all the very similar shots of her touching her ear and gazing sadly into the middle distance. But that’s not all she does: there are also shots of her cooking, attending the Matrix III Ukrainian premiere and looking pretty without touching her ear. The woman’s talents are limitless, and with more politicians like this I’m sure the Ukraine wouldn’t have got themselves into such a mess with the election. Who’d care who won as long as she could cook and look lovely gazing into middle distance all at the same time?

If Blunkett gets wind of this new honey on the political scene he’ll have her a visa before you can say “rat up a drainpipe”.