The latest WikiLeaks revelations involve a member of the Royal Family — according to the Guardian, one of the few chosen newspapers to break this story in detail.

Update: Royal Anecdotes’ story that Prince Andrew is the Royal concerned seems to be confirmed by the Daily Mail tonight.

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WikiLeaks targets Royal Family

Have you ever watched an object gradually disintegrate in a glass jar of acid?

Many of us will have in our school’s chemistry lab. The power of the acid to dissolve the object — which might be a stone, a lump of metal or some other substance — is one of nature’s more entertaining party tricks.

Not so, though, when the object being eroded away is your own country.

The European Union is rolling out the immense, shadowy powers of the Lisbon Treaty (aka EU constitution) with unseemly haste. Officials can hardly believe their luck and are consolidating their diktat with streamlined ruthlessness.

It doesn’t help Britain’s cause that the Coalition Government is cooperating willingly in this process. The City of London, arguably the world’s biggest financial centre, has been handed over without so much as a squeak from George Osborne and the Cabinet.

It is beginning to emerge that many of our Armed Forces could be pledged to joint operations with France, even sharing the new aircraft carriers. And more legal powers over British citizens have been handed to countries with suspect judiciaries.

William Hague, far from being the Euro warrior of popular imagination, is mired in personal problems that get worse by the day. He has hardly raised his head above the battlements on European integration. His words before the election — “We will show we mean business” — were meaningless all along.

I have to say it: this is not what we expected from the new government. If the Conservatives cannot protect the nation’s integrity, and simply preside over its dissolution as a self-governing entity, it is not fit for office.

It’s no excuse that David Cameron has been away. As Prime Minister this is his responsibility. The deficit does have to be tackled, we know, but not at the expense of the United Kingdom’s political future.

The least he can do now is allow the EU referendum he promised before the election. His reputation probably depends on it.

It’s not the country that should be immersed in an acid bath, but our lickspittle political class.

John Evans

Now that the British General Election is out of the way, we can catch our collective breath and get back to what passes for normality. That means changes here at Syntagma Towers.

Saturday Ramble will return to being a thoughtful, even speculative, wander through the byways of interesting ideas — not, as it has been recently, relentlessly political.

To compensate, the sometimes edgy Sunday Diary column will re-emerge this week, sparing nobody with a hint of red thread in their suit.

And as the hols are beckoning, we’re going to be pushing the delights of the West Country beyond normal tolerance levels.

Oh, and immortality could feature on rare occasions.

David Cameron being appointed Prime Minister by the Queen

Hail to the Chief.

Just a line or two: the Conservative Party political broadcast tonight is what they should have been doing weeks ago.

It showed David Cameron at his best, slicing through the horrors of the Labour government’s philosophy and policies which have led us into this disaster.

The message is beginning to come together — at last. He didn’t do it in the staged TV broadcasts, but he’s done it on the stump.

This is the winning formula. They should stick with it. Play it again and again.

I smell victory in this presentation of policy. Dave’s time has come.