The authorities in Brazil have arrested 60 policemen accused of receiving regular payments from drug dealers to turn a blind eye to their activities in several shanty towns of Rio de Janeiro.
As for Mrs Buffet, she has proved an incisive minister of sport in the Socialist-led coalition government of Lionel Jospin, notably by refusing to turn a blind eye to rampant drug-taking in the annual Tour de France cycle race.
Scotland persisted with spin, perhaps for too long, and that was a cue for De Villiers and Abie Morkel to entertain the crowd with a series of eye-catching sixes.