There was an air of grim satisfaction in the highest reaches of the Labour Party yesterday, tinged, it must be said, with huge relief that an uncomfortable force might be well on the way to being removed from their midst. While in public Ian McCartney, the new party chairman, was circumspect about the allegations, privately other senior figures were delighted at the news. That George Galloway has continued so long in public life is a tribute not just to his roguish, but almost entirely phoney, charms but also to the propensity of the British Left to believe that every action...