The much-trailed – by one side at least – "brush-by" meeting between Ed Miliband and Barack Obama has taken place. As if the golden glow of a newly prime ministerial aura around Britain's top gonk were not enough to prove it, photographs have been released testifying to his arrival within the US president's orbit and one of the smaller offices of the White House, wherein he stayed for 25 whole minutes discussing Gaza, Ukraine and Russia, the Malaysian airliner and anything else that could possibly burnish an opposition leader's foreign policy credentials ahead of an election next year.
All in all, a riotous success. Though you do wonder what the parties involved were really thinking …
