Keep your friends close...

...and your enemies closer. Is it the logic behind this political maxim that accounts for Bill Clinton's long lunch recently with Richard Mellon Scaife?

That's right. The same Richard Mellon Scaife who bankrolled investigations into Clinton's alleged drug-taking, supported rumours that he was behind an aide's death and stood at the heart of Hillary's 'vast-right wing conspiracy.'

As Newsweek puts it:

His lawyer, Yale Gutnick, says Bill Clinton and Richard Mellon Scaife are now members of a "mutual admiration society." Cue the apocalyse.

We can only assume that Kenneth Starr's booked in for next Tuesday.

Alice Fishburn