I've just bought a leopard print Oodie (or Sainsbury's equivalent!) for a hospital appointment!

She clearly grew up with a different Sunday school teacher to mine!

I always wonder this on A Place In The Sun when the property seems perfectly sound, but they turn their noses up because the bedrooms are too small. That said, I would love it if one couple just came right out and said they wanted room for a sex swing!

Welcome back!

Quite. But I'm a bit busy today. You've maybe read a bit too much into my use of a word in a throwaway line...

Yes, I know. I studied this at university.

Yep, Trump makes Nixon look saintly.

Don't blame him. Failing Grayling was a terrible minister.

Yep, these obnoxious little twerps did themselves no favours being so rude to established journos on a forum that's about as confidential as a postcard.

I came second for a job there about 15 years ago - they went for the candidate with academic experience rather than my industry experience. I was annoyed at the time, but I may have dodged a bullet!

Hopefully, their students will be more polite than the Sunderland journalism students who picked a fight with me and my friend Jane a few years ago when we had the temerity to suggest that it's still important to know about grammar!

Yes, this is definitely years and years of rot and it's only coming to the surface properly now. There's definitely a racist narrative about asylum seekers on the loose, but letting out dangerous prisoners by mistake is nothing new.

100%.

As you'll know, the US spends $182 billion/year on imprisonment, with a recidivism rate of 60-70% after two years (UK is 50%). Prison is expensive, and doesn't work - this piece on technological incarceration looks at how to get rid of them www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...