Getting the hump over expenses

Kelvin MacKenzie in The Sun today notes that "There is much hand-wringing among journalists over the shocking story of MPs' expenses. Of course journalists themselves are not above using their creative art in the execs area."
He then goes on to repeat one of the legendary Fleet Street expenses stories, invoving a Daily Express foreign correspondent who claimed £300 for buying a camel. When management told him he must subtract the price for selling the camel, he submitted a new claim: "To bury camel..£130."