Would you trust this man with birch twigs?

SPRING cleaning by European standards has been quite effective this year, if the efforts of Ireland and Finland are anything to go by.
Whilst the resignation of Bertie Ahern brought vomit-inducing platitudes from politicians whose own Teflon coatings have started to wear a little thin, the sacking of Finnish foreign minister, Ilkka Kanerva, was the [...]