The Daily Mail deserves huge credit for its reporting of Ali Dizaei. While other papers have been as fearful as his Met bosses of reporting his true nature, the Mail has for some years been on his case.

I'd urge you to read their account in today's paper of his career. I'm not sure what is more jaw dropping: what he actually did, or the way in which the most senior policemen in the country cowed before him. Astonishing stuff.