I haven't heard it yet, but I hoped you also talked Black Bun and Ecclefechan Tart, two of the finest confections on these islands. I worry at the number of intelligent adults who don't understand that eating dried fruit is part of being a grown-up.

Actually, you're wrong. They have the potential to be far worse.

Let's remember that one of the early triumphs of Big Brother Watch was Eric Pickles's gutting of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, with the intention of preventing local authorities from checking fly-tipping sites for addresses on envelopes...

As a Non-Subscriber and a Zwinglian, that's a Calvinist view I can support!

Then there's the associated idiocy that says only 10% - 15% of a research article should be actual research findings.

Thanks for sharing. I remain of the view that if it's not a SSSI, AONB or National Park only market forces, personal choice and paying up the CIL (community infrastructure levy) should determine whether it's built on.

Meanwhile, we spaff billions on the Triple Lock.

Meanwhile, neutral Switzerland fields 30 F18 and 50 F5 fighter jets. Ireland hasn't had a functional interceptor capacity since the 1950's.

As an Irish citizen, I'm delighted that my taxes pay for Ireland's air and maritime defence, but I don't see why my neighbours in our Yorkshire village should have to pay. Ireland has no air defence radar, can't respond to air incursions into Irish airspace, and can't protect transatlantic cables.

Except it's not genocide. It's a democratic state exercising it's legitimate right to self-defence against fascist, racist, misogynistic, homophobic and antisemitic aggression. Like the Nazis in WW2, Hamas and the cancerous culture that sustains it needs to be eliminated.

It's been this bad for decades, and will be so until we remove NIMBYs from the planning process and bite the bullet on road-user pricing.

Mamdani would have failed Labour's NEC vetting process, quite rightly. Poor local selections have national impacts, as Labour learnt in the 1980's. Will the New York result help flip Red State House Districts? No.

Does he realise that his parliamentary constituency - and lots of others in ex-mining constituencies - would have no main dealerships if it wasn't for Motability? Motability is the main buyer of new cars in the UK, and definitely the major funder of dealerships in constituencies like Ashfield.

And a fourth. Save the NHS billions, and cut our unsustainable bill for state pensions by re-using those dinghies to send Reform voters on a one way trip to Murmansk, Archangel or Kaliningrad. Putin paid for their votes. He can look after them in their declining years...

Perhaps it's time for the return of the great English institution, the Bill of Attainder? Targeted at the King's enemies on Russia's payroll...

A significant focus on the adult skills deficit would also be useful. Large numbers of older people in the UK are functionally illiterate and innumerate, and unable to use basic information technology such as self-scan tills or book GP appointments online.

When land with planning permission costs £20m per hectare, as it does now? I don't think so. Until we have a genuinely free and competitive market in development land, it won't happen.