Spreading wild rumours isn’t responsible. It is, however, one of the simpler pleasures of life.

In that spirit — and following Joe Kelly of The Australian’s exclusive this afternoon that Senate President Stephen Parry, an undertaker in a former life who appears to have played some embalming tricks on a political career that may have been ruled dead otherwise last Friday, is potentially a British citizen — it’s only fair to share the gos that’s set the corridors of Parliament House alight.