Yes. And far from being something that ‘everyone’ did, it was a minority even then.

That’s just the financial side.

Electoral reform, major reforms to the HoL, banning foreign ownership of UK media, complete reform of regulators so that they actually serve the public interest.

I would introduce a compulsory register of offshore wealth, non-compliance resulting in seizure of that wealth. I would then impose top-up taxes on that wealth so you pay the same overall tax as if you had kept it onshore. And big gains in CGT to make it closer to income tax. And wealth tax.

It’s particularly lovely that someone leaves a ball next to it.

Outside the WW2 Museum in New Orleans - just for service dogs, not other animals.

I should add, I have interpreted ‘influential’ as books that have influenced me!

That’s a very tough question. It depends on the context, inevitably. But I will choose Browning’s ‘Ordinary Men’, Sachslehner’s ‘Rosen für den Mörder’, and anything by Wolfram Wette. His biographies of Schmid and Karl Jäger are excellent.

It’s already covered by Article 7 of the ECHR, which is therefore (currently) included in UK law.

Arguably, it’s in contravention of Article 7 of the ECHR which states that laws cannot apply retrospectively.

What the US - and indeed most of the western world - needs are stronger safeguards to prevent behaviour like this in future.

And the charge of conspiracy wasn’t prosecuted after Gill pleaded guilty to the charge of accepting bribes. To bring the charge in the first place, they must have had evidence. Of what? With whom was he conspiring?

I’ll buy shares in that

I think Seth Todd in his frog costume in Portland is several positions higher in the list of potential winners than Trumpy.

Spare a thought for me, trying to remember what baby me might have had in 1961 …

Purely an attempt at some morning humour, nothing more.