When I posted yesterday about the police visiting the office of Tory MP Daniel Kawczynski, I hadn't picked up on what it was they were investigating. It seems that someone, maybe one of Mr K's constituents, had posted some white powder to a minister. The powder later turned out to be flour. At this point you might have expected the investigation to be dropped, there being no crime of "posting baking ingredients" to my knowledge, but our doughty protectors had the bit between their collective teeth and continued regardless. That's by the by.
However, perhaps there is more to this than meets the eye. Today, Instapundit reports
THE WHITE POWDER MAILED TO THE WSJ WAS FLOUR. Apparently there have been other such mailings targeting “conservative commentators.”
So there appears to be an ongoing campaign of posting bakery ingredients to the great and the good, a veritable conspiracy in fact. Whatever can it mean?