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As the paper first with the Baroness Scotland-illegal housekeeper story, the Daily Mail broke one of the stories of the year. And Paper Monitor will always doff its cap to a good old fashioned scoop. But with the baroness still in her job, the Mail believes its work is not done yet.

Which leads us to the ubiquitous which has come to accompany stories such as this with increasing regularity these days. The only problem is that, well, the Mail has many of the answers already.

"What were Baroness Scotland's obligations as an employer?" asks the Mail, only to swiftly follow up with: "She should have demanded to see documents proving Loloahi Tapui was entitled to work in Britain - carefully examining them and keeping copies."

Maybe Paper Monitor is missing something, but that sounds like a fairly conclusive answer. Next question

"What does the Attorney General say she did?"

Good question. If only Baroness Scotland would provide an answer.

"By her own account she looked at Miss Tapui's documents and was convinced the Tongan was allowed to work in the UK. But she made an 'inadvertent' mistake by failing to take copies."

It's perhaps not the answer the Mail wants to hear, but the words "by her own account" rather compromise the notion this is an "unanswered question".

"What documents does Baroness Scotland claim she saw?"

"She says she saw..."

You get the picture. In the interests of balance, it should pointed out that some of the questions further on do, indeed, warrant the label "unanswered".

But for Paper Monitor, there is one question above all others in today's Mail that definitely lacks an answer: "What REALLY makes a woman want to sleep with a man?"

Although, only an innocent in sexual politics would take that to be a comment on Paper Monitor's gender.

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