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Quite amazing how his much vaunted classical education ends up with him using a Marvel Comics character. Not Jason, Odysseus, or any of the vast pantheon of Greek (and Roman) heroes.

Unfortunately, police have nothing to go on.

Who is that with him?

It isn't just business rates. A fairly recent peripheral involvement with a low-turnover operation made me understand some of the difficulties. A location without a high number of passers-by does not get sufficiently noticed. But any location with more people is much, much more expensive and...

Never and of course I shall. Our town centre has recently received a major improvment in the form of a new library (etc.) - which was projected to cost £3.4 million. Yes, it is an obvious improvement. But that was pretty much one building. The rest of the centre needs help as well. I can't...

Quite a few Grand Designs houses (and similar programs) have cost the best part of a million. For one building. 95 million across 69 towns and cities is hardly going to make much difference. Historic towns to benefit from £95m boost named Historic English shopping centres will benefit from a...

She both made a funny remark and, when she saw that not everyone agreed it was right for her to have done so in exactly those circumstances, apologised. Quickly. Just when has BJ ever acted in such an a) amusing and b) responsible way? (In my view, I cannot see an apology having been needed.)

Doncaster! Good one. Johnson was also confronted by a woman in Doncaster. “People have died because of austerity and you’ve got the cheek to come here and tell us austerity is over and it’s all good now, we’re going to leave the EU and everything’s going to be great,” she said. “It’s just a...

As I agree a clean break really is nonsense, whatever the rhetoric, we get back to the same question. So just what is the advanatge of leaving? The bits I have not quoted are also worth reading. Hopes of clean break with EU are nonsense, says ex-Brexit official A no-deal exit would trigger...

Three ex-prime ministers Tony Blair, Gordon Brown AND Sir John Major join together to attack Boris Johnson over No Deal plans as they warn he must choose between leading the nation and being a 'spokesman for ultra-Brexiteers' Sir John Major says pursuing No Deal would define Boris Johnson's...

Isn't TM the only living former PM who hasn't criticised BJ (and Gove) in damning language? Come on TM, don't be shy.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch... The government has misunderstood the science on the safety of chlorinated chicken, a group of senior food policy experts has said. It has also failed to give watertight commitments that it would not be sold here after a no-deal Brexit, they warn. The experts...

Did anyone notice the personal data transfer issue - which might not be resolved for years? And any steps towards resolution are likely to no-one's satisfaction.

Very often, what gets discussed, though based on leaks, actually gets exaggerated. In this case, I think the official document reads in many ways worse.

The fact that the day of the week is highlighted as an issue rather underscores the knife-edge balance that they are contemplating. If 24 hours is sufficient to raise concern... It is noted that day one after the expected Halloween exit is a Friday “which may not be to our advantage” and may...

The redacted section apparently said: 15. Facing EU tariffs makes petrol exports to the EU uncompetitive. Industry had plans to mitigate the impact on refinery margins and profitability but UK Government policy to set petrol import tariffs at 0% inadvertently undermines these plans. This leads...

It is clearly grossly incomplete. I cite one simple example: 16 A small minority of insurance payments from UK insurers into the EU may be delayed. Do they not think it possible, probable or an odds-on certainty that insurance payments from EU insurers into the UK may be delayed?

:) They might have used some sort of tape. But I think it possible to get pretty good lines with a wide felt tip.

If only we were having a discussion about whether the type is justified (I prefer not in almost all circumstances) rather than whether the contents is justified.

Note that they tooks six pages and scanned them on a Canon imageRUNNER ADVANCE C256/C356 II Series MFP. The obvious reason to do that (and cause all the pages to be skewed) is to guarantee there is no history or metadata present - that might be discovered and embarrass. (And make it easy to...