THE NEXT G8 APPROACHES

Ma!! I'm so bloody bored!

In the absence of IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, awaiting trial on a charge of attempted rape, with Angela Merkel focused on the austerity front and Nicolas Sarkozy on his coming fatherhood, Silvio Berlusconi will feel isolated at the G8 at Deauville, 26/27 May.