POOR Kim Howells, Pontypridd MP and Foreign Office minister: all his old mates are going to have a party, and he's not invited. A celebration takes place at the end of May to mark 40 years since the 1968 occupation of Hornsey College of Art in London, a political protest former communist Mr Howells played a leading role in. The organisers, Unison and Aslef and Haringey TUC, had invited Mr Howells to come and join in with the cocktails and canapes.
Then Mr Howells started hanging around with his new friends in Colombia. And now his former buddies in the unions have withdrawn his invitation. Wonder what the 20-something radical Mr Howells would have made of his ministerial incarnation?