If necessary the Ombudsman can be helpful (and it’s a free service too)

Breakfast

He’s a very silly sausage then

And remarkable muscular control to stop and start between each letter

Used to have a tie that, whenever I wore it, I was approached in shops as someone who worked there. It wasn’t in any particular branding, it just seemed to telegraph “Shop Assistant”. I wasn’t so I stopped wearing it. Pity, really, I quite liked it otherwise.

Indeed, no doubt this is “constructive ambiguity” sacrificing legal clarity for political benefit in the event that the contract became public and there was a call to justify the obviously excessive costs - always comes back to bite you

International events have had the effect of making internal UK politics seem incredibly trivial

Upsetting though to be plastered with the logo of a hell-site

English style or Chinese style?

Sweetheart, you don’t know much about @lewisgoodall.com nor the Telegraph if you are taking your opinions about the UK from a Telegraph headline. Perhaps you should visit the UK before forming your opinion and then, better informed share it with people back home xx

Looks like a role for Tom Hollander in an upcoming dramatization

I once answered the phone to Elton John wanting to speak to someone else

I’m a private investigator in Bologna (what a lot of detective stories we all read)

There are reasonable and useful things to be said about that - more perhaps even than about the service - including “over zealous” and “if you want me to work for you, pay me”

As someone else has already observed, “never mind 5 years, 2 hours would be enough of mine”