RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Huhne do you think you are kidding? There was a time, not so long ago, when disgraced politicians kept their heads down for a decent interval before attempting to re-enter public life. No one realistically expects a return to traditional standards of duty and honour, which were irrevocably undermined by New Labour's infinitely flexible amoral code. But the lack of contrition shown by Chris Huhne is beyond breathtaking. Obviously, there was never any prospect of a politician possessing Chris Huhne's inexhaustible reserves of self-regard doing a Profumo and disappearing quietly to devote the rest of his life to good works It only seems about five minutes since he was released from prison after serving a derisory 62 days of an eight-month sentence for perverting the course of justice. Technically he is still on licence. Huhne, you may recall, was jailed along with his ex-wife Vicky Pryce for swapping speeding points back in 2003. He repeatedly denied the charge until the case reached court, when he finally pleaded guilty. It capped a spectacular fall from grace for a man who came within a whisker of becoming Lib Dem leader and possibly Deputy Prime Minister. Obviously, there was never any prospect of a politician possessing Huhne's inexhaustible reserves of self-regard doing a Profumo and disappearing quietly to devote the rest of his life to good works. It might, however, have been reasonable to expect a discreet period of silence and sober reflection. Fat chance. Huhne does confess that he may have played a small part in his own downfall. He pays lip service to the damage it has done to his family and regrets "letting down people with whom I share a common cause, particularly over climate change." Huhne was jailed along with his ex-wife Vicky Pryce for swapping speeding points back in 2003 But, no, the real victim here, according to Huhne, is Christopher Murray Paul-Huhne, a flawed man laid low by the wicked media. Yesterday, the former Minister for Windmills turned up on the BBC and in the Guardian (where else?) complaining that he was targeted deliberately by the Press because in 2009 he had called on the police to reopen the inquiry into phone hacking at the now-defunct News of the World. The following year, the News of the Screws exposed him for having an affair with his unlovely assistant Carina Trimingham. After the subsequent break-up of his marriage, his vengeful ex-wife spilled the beans to the Sunday Times, admitting that Huhne had persuaded her to accept his speeding points so that he could avoid a driving ban. Because both newspapers were part of the Rupert Murdoch stable, Huhne maintains that they conspired to single him out for character assassination as punishment for trying to resurrect the phone hacking investigation. Bizarrely, he also manages to conflate the exposure of his criminal and extra-marital behaviour with Murdoch's abortive bid to take 100 per cent control of Sky TV. He goes on to accuse the wider media of "corroding public trust" in politicians. There is, apparently, no limit to his combined capacity for self-delusion and self-aggrandisement. Consider the evidence. For a start, back in 2009 no one would have paid the slightest attention to a Lib Dem backbencher's demand for the reopening of the phone hacking inquiry. As for the exposure of his affair, that was legitimate journalism in the public interest. News that an insignificant backbench MP had left his wife wouldn't have troubled the scorers. But after the 2010 election Huhne was a Minister in the Coalition Government. He'd stepped up a division. Huhne put his private life on offer when he paraded his family for public approval during the election campaign. He even published his 26-year-old wedding snaps and boasted: "Family matters to me so much." Huhne deliberately peddled the electorate a false prospectus. Pryce was blissfully unaware of the affair (with Carina Trimingham) until it was exposed in the newspapers At the time he was already having an affair with Miss Trimingham, who was then in a civil partnership with another woman. If he'd left his wife for his lover before the election and been open with voters in his constituency about the relationship, he might be entitled to the benefit of the doubt. But he deliberately peddled the electorate a false prospectus. Vicky Pryce was blissfully unaware of the affair until it was exposed in the newspapers. Huhne was shuttling secretly between his family and his mistress. More from Richard Littlejohn... Presumably, as with the speeding points scam, he thought he would continue to get away with it. As I wrote at the time, this wasn't about his sex life. It was about his hypocrisy, lies and deception. In his Guardian article, Huhne claims that Pryce was "groomed" by the Sunday Times, as if she was a vulnerable child preyed upon by an evil paedophile. Most of us would say that the reporter who covered the story was simply doing her job. Far from being another "burned contact," to use Huhne's emotive expression, Pryce was an intelligent, grown woman bent on revenge. She willingly threw herself on the pyre. Hell hath no fury and all that. As for the notion that it was all tied in with Murdoch's bid to buy 100 per cent of Sky: that doesn't add up, either. Murdoch needed political support to push through the deal, so why would he go out of his way to destroy a prominent Cabinet member? Huhne also claims that the media is responsible for the public's mistrust of politicians. Might it not have something to do with the expenses scandal; MPs "flipping" their second homes to avoid tax; the way that the odious, twice-disgraced Peter Mandelson was allowed to play the system for personal gain; and Blair exploiting his former office to fill his boots? Not to mention the dodgy dossier on the Iraq war; global warming madness; the EU; the human rights racket; immigration; and the complete disconnect between elected representatives in the Westminster bubble and the people who pay their wages. What about disgraced ex-Climate Change Secretary Chris Huhne landing himself a £100,000-a-year, two-days-a-week consultancy with a "green" energy company within days of being released from jail? This is despite the fact ministers are not supposed to take private sector jobs related to their former portfolios for a period of two years after leaving office. Prison is supposed to rehabilitate as well as punish, and perhaps instil a sense of humility and self-awareness. In the case of Chris Huhne, it clearly failed. Good to see Andrew Marr back on Sunday morning TV demonstrating that while he may have lost some mobility, his mental acuity and natural curiosity are as sharp as ever. During an interview with Maurice Saatchi, Marr couldn't resist asking about his brother Charles's break-up with Nigella Lawson. Maurice replied honestly that marriage is a private place and no one can ever really know what goes on behind closed doors between a husband and wife. During an interview with Maurice Saatchi, Andrew Marr couldn't resist asking about his brother Charles's break-up with Nigella Lawson That is, until someone installs CCTV in everybody's bedrooms. Of course, video cameras are already strategically sited in some people's bedrooms and the results can be found streaming live on the internet. But to the best of my knowledge, it isn't yet official Government policy. Given the inexorable expansion of the surveillance state, though, it's probably only a matter of time before ministers get round to making CCTV in bedrooms compulsory. That's if Google doesn't beat them to it. OK, chaps, he is one of ours Loved the story about Prince Andrew being mistaken for an intruder in the grounds of Buckingham Palace. Not being able to recognise a member of the Royal Family is a bit of a drawback if you're part of the royal protection squad. But that, apparently, was the officers" initial excuse. Best comment on the incident came from a caller to Nick Ferrari's radio show on London's LBC. He suggested that all officers should be issued with a spotter's guide to the Royal Family, like the silhouettes of German aircraft printed during the war. Bandits at three o'clock, Sarge. Don't panic, it's only Prince Harry on his way back from a night out at Mahiki. A sculpture made from girders taken from the ruins of the World Trade Centre is rusting away in a Cambridgeshire farmyard. The 28ft structure was donated to commemorate the 67 British citizens who died on 9/11. It was put up in Battersea Park for a month and was to have been transferred to a site next to London's City Hall. But plans for a permanent memorial were scrapped after a number of objections from the usual Left-wing suspects that the statue should also commemorate victims of "other ethnic conflicts." For heaven's sake. This a memorial to the victims of 9/11 made from a piece of the World Trade Centre. What else should it commemorate: The Zulu Massacres? Bloody Sunday? The Battle of the Little Bighorn? Why are we going to Bombay, duck? We've come a long way from Peter Sellers having to mug it in Goodness Gracious Me Here's something MPs could have put to Chris Patten. BBC Radio 4 yesterday began broadcasting a six-part drama, Undercover Mumbai, set and recorded in India. But why did they think it necessary to fly a production team halfway round the world to record it? The Beeb has just spent more than £1 billion of licence-payers" money on New Broadcasting House, equipped with state-of-the-art studios and sound technology. Surely the whole point of radio is that the pictures are created in the imagination of the listener. There are plenty of excellent home-grown Indian actors. We've come a long way from Peter Sellers having to mug it in Goodness Gracious Me. Chuck in a few sound-effects and a sitar and it could have been made in London for a fraction of the cost.