Come back Bertie's yellow trousers, all is forgiven

There's probably no good way for political chief executives to credibly go casual, as Bertie Ahern demonstrated in the extreme, but the trio of Vicente Fox, George Bush, and Stephen Harper look particularly goofy in this walk-around Chichen Itza near Cancun today. While Fox can at least defend his light-colours/straw hat as an obvious strategy for the sun and heat, Bush has a strangely ill-fitting shirt that makes one wonder about the claims that he works out a lot, and Stephen Harper's safari look is perhaps the oddest of all -- and we hope to God that Mrs Harper packed his sun-block.