When is a scandal not a scandal – when we don’t care about it.

These past month a number of news sites have been ramming the Taylor Swift concert tickets saga down our throats. I am all for taking down politicians a peg or two but even I can’t see why it is being dragged on for so long.

It is a little desperate if nothing else. It appears this new government is behaving a little more like adults and we just don’t know what to do about.

Nobody is making nasty comments and nobody is crashing the economy.

What happened to the good old scandals? You know those involving people breaking lockdown rules or contracts for billions being handed out to mates.

All this is while ordinary folk were being forced to pay fines for having met their dying grandads.

For those not in the know, Sir Keir Starmer is facing continuing questions over freebie Taylor Swift concert tickets. And how he attended a sell-out Swift show for free and met the singer, after Government involvement in discussions over her security, which saw her given a taxpayer-funded police escort while performing in London.

Sir Keir and his family talked with the pop star and her mother for around 10 minutes after the concert in August.

I mean, we have handed state visits and rolled out the red carpet to a whole load of despots over the years but we can’t give a police escort to poor old Taylor Swift?

Vladimir Putin and Bashar al-Assad got to meet the Queen (may she rest in peace) and here we are moaning about Taylor Swift being escorted by a couple of cops.

I am pretty certain we will have the next ‘strategic foreign partner’ visiting the shores in the near future.

Then again, we will have people saying this is nothing to do with Taylor Swift but more to do with politicians accepting gifts. You mean like the donations they get from business folk?

What I have found in the past two or three months is a whole load of media folk who wanted to make out that 14 years of Conservative rule with all the proper scandals that went with it was ‘actually okay’.

I think a proper scandal is due. This, I am afraid, is not it.