Reinstated minister Shahid Malik, after convincing Brown that the skeleton in his cupboard was just an anatomist's mannequin, has been caught out yet again: two houses simultaneously on the Fees Office books.

As the stag said when the doe came to bed: Oh dear.

Will this be a record for shortest ministerial posting? The Queen of Swords at this point asks us to draw our own conclusions (i.e. probably not), but he's not looking incredibly good all the same.