Here’s to a transparent 2009

What’s this?  Yet another delay to the publication of ministers’ private interests?  Yep, and this time it’s because some of the “new minsters” introduced during the last reshuffle have – according to the Times’s source – “required quite a bit of investigation”.  The Times adds 2 + 2 together and comes up with Peter Mandelson; who’s “declared the bare minimum in a voluntary entry to the Lords Register of Interests.