Competition

There are ads on the Underground for New Zealand. They feature a picture very similar to this one:

and the strapline, "CAN YOU IMAGINE A BETTER JOURNEY TO WORK?"

That's your challenge right there. Can you? Here's my suggestion.

Fig. 1: The luge	Fig. 2: The luge (reverse view)

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9.25 pm

Baroness Harris of Richmond: We need to understand more closely exactly what the powers of the Secretary of State will entail, and how they will be used. We have several concerns—

THWA-DUNK.

Baroness Henig, who had been sitting alone at the end of one of the Labour benches, had fallen off her bench. She had already been having a tough day, never having taken part in committee before, and had been saying all the wrong things in all the wrong places, continuously being gently corrected by other peers. Now she was spreadeagled on one of the steps in the chamber, her notes scattered around her. "I'm all right," she said breathlessly as she gathered herself. We still don't know why she fell off, as she had shown no signs of having recently been drinking or sleeping. The only silver lining for her is that there were only about ten peers in to witness her special moment, although once they had established she was okay they couldn't stop laughing.

The Lib Dem Baroness Harris of Richmond continued with her speech with some difficulty. She kept breaking off every other sentence to laugh silently, her shoulders heaving. "Forgive me, my lords," she'd gasp, and have another go, only to break down again. She was brought a glass of water, as if that would somehow help. Of course the less she said, the less I had to type, so I finished that little bit earlier than I otherwise would have done. So, Baroness Henig: thanks. Whatever exactly it was you did.

Baroness Henig, pre-incident

Contender for "Best photo library research", itself a contender for "Least interesting BAFTA award"

The BBC's story about Thames Water hopelessly missing its leak targets and raking in huge profits as per, and basically being nothing more than the rapacious money factory its critics have always labelled it, is accompanied by this possibly staged photo: