The horror or Broken Britain continues this week.

First we learn that plotting to kidnap a senior royal is becoming ever more common, then we learn that followers of Hugo Chavez are terrorising the elderly residents of a tranquil Gloucestershire village every day.

Among the hardworking Britons to attack followers of Hugo Chavez terrorising the elderly residents of a tranquil Gloucestershire village was Paul Dacre who today said As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding. Like the Roman, I seem to see the River Tiber foaming with much blood..