To the best of my knowledge the term "Clinically Sane" used in a derogatory manner was coind by Guardian diarist Jon Henley who regularly applies it to the Daily Mail's Diva of the Rabid Right, Melanie Phillips.
It is starting to seem as if Jon has discivered a genuine and potentially dangerous pychological condition, a non diagnosable psychsis. Imagine if we has someone who had Clinically Sane Syndrome running the country.
Oh erm, yeah. Only been gone two hours and I'd forgotten him...
As I scan the news each day I am regularly gobsmacked by the number of high profile people who could be described as clinically sane, i.e. not actually howling at the moon, rubbing poo in their hair or watching Big Brother but nontheless looney.
The bloke who is planning to buy Manchester City for example, or Kate Moss, all the Spice Girls, Tom Cruise, Lembit Opik, Polly Toynbee, Mohammed al Fayed, Quentin Davies, some woman on GMTV who was drinking her own widdle while I was having me porridge YEUCH,
and Cherie Blair.
Scary isn't it?