Just to make sure you all know I haven't gone away. Yet. I now have 550 responses to the survey and more would be great. It is producing interesting results.

Bring back hanging says Lee Anderson. Bring back national service says Penny Mordaunt. I say bring back governments that know their arses from their elbows.

A Huasco Canary according to a nice old geezer who engaged me in conversation in this Chilean port as I drove up the country two years back

Another success for the ECB's plan to destroy the four day game. Trebles and bonuses all round!!

She is a Shakespearian tragedy for our times. A girl who left school at 16 and became a PO counter clerk, rising through the ranks to become one of its most senior executives is destroyed by the very attributes and attitudes that propelled her to that stratosphere.

At The Blue Boar earlier. Henry Graham Bennett outraged to find Rocky at £4 a pint. Can't wait until he gets to Leicestershire CCC 🏏 and finds it's £5.80 here. I am on my second and have asked Nationwide for a mortgage towards the third. Maybe Friends of Grace Rd can get a license?

I nominate Alex Salmond for lack of self-awareness quote of the day

'I don't patronize other politicians'

Har har

A Great Master of the Order of the Bath uses toothpaste with purple stripes. A Grand Master of the Order of the British Empire gets a second air freshener in the Coach of State and a free phial of Chanel no 8.3 with every can of Irn Bru

Have not a single one of these numpties realized that the Crusaders lost?

The 'Government' to which you belong has reduced defence expenditure from 2.5% of GDP to 2.1%. That's a cut of nearly 20%. Corbyn for all his many faults never proposed anything this mad or destructive.

The words you and your ilk have forgotten include
Tolerance
Decency
Honesty
Loyalty
Fairness
Charity
Selflessness
Politeness

It delivers a lie. It says Rwanda is safe. You and your lickspittle backbenchers know this is a lie. The Judges say it is a lie. It is revolting. Just go. Call an electiob

Nobody but nobody pretends this isn't true. Reading across from that that all or many prefer this or that it is generally a 'lifestyle choice' is malign.

Exactly. The openly greedy Rishi Sunak lived right next door to the openly dishonest Boris Johnson for a while. He now lives next door to the openly stupid Jeremy Hunt.

So anyone illegally sacked only gets Jobseekers' Allowance until 2025 while water companies have until 2050 to end sewage dumping in our rivers. I do have that right, don't I?

Other half says this bird is Japanese. Maybe it eats sushi. Maybe she means the style. Who knows? Only been together 40 years

Here is my evidence. I did go to the market.

'Pleased to see you looking so well your majesty. We need to discuss your return to work.'

Another nudge. Things are still a bit slow. It's the curse of the online empirical researcher! So please do the survey. Responses are interesting and have already helped my article on admin charges. Thanks and have a good weekend. I am now off to Leicester Market

Regulation? Solicitors are regulated. Didn't help SubPostMasters. The issue the only issue is control. Once their clients are tenants things will change. Only then.