And left-handed, too! Isn’t there some special significance about rich men and left-handed shakes? Apart from the Boy Scout Movement, of course.

My feeling about this is that it seems to operate like a Ponzi scheme, albeit a very long term investment. It is a Government backed financial vehicle - the companies that buy these loan portfolios will have a guaranteed return because even if the graduates fail to pay it back, the Government will.

I saw a snippet on TV a couple of days ago - the BBC explaining that they had Farage on so often because the opinion polls showed him to be so popular. They absolutely have put the cart before the horse: he’s up in the polls essentially because he’s ready and able to spout daily on their channel.

I used to think that. I took my 9 month old miniature schnauzer to the local organised fireworks event. She walked around relatively unconcerned. Every year since then, and she’s now 9 years old, she’s a quivering wreck at the first sound of a bang.

Only one? Now that’s surprising. You’re not looking hard enough.

The Zephyrs of Tiff

Hang on a minute. I think he might be on to something here: make the display of the Union flag and the St. George’s flag so commonplace and welcomed by everybody, and you wrest the symbolism of them from the far right nationalists and racists, who then need a different, less emotive, symbol to grab.

Until you see who she clerked for. Now it all makes sense!

Not just the back-of-a-fag-packet calculation, but aided by Trump’s firm understanding that the EU is a single country.

Hmmm. That runs the risk of confusion with Donald Tusk, Polish Prime Minister, and one of the “good” guys. Can we just go with “Muck”?