Tie

Some belated thanks:

Thank you to everyone who came to South London Pacific last weekend for birthday stuff, from those who came all the way from New York to those who simply swung by to say hi. Thank you to everyone for quite excellent presents and general sod-you-January saturnalia. And...



... thank you, flaneurette, for this.

Misprints of mine that actually were published but have since been corrected #401

it turns out small words can be quite important so I should probably try not to miss them out. Fun game: pin the "per" to the sentence.

Lord Waddington (Con): Unbelievably, Ireland, whose per capita income is 30 per cent higher than the EU average, is to get more head than Lithuania, Slovakia or Poland.

Fascist!

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Home Office (Lord West of Spithead): I have some experience of a demonstration [in Parliament Square]. Before I joined the House, I was in full [admiral’s] uniform in my car and a demonstrator came up and accused me of being a fascist warmonger. I think I proved that I was a peacemaker because my Royal Marine colour sergeant who was driving me said, “Shall I put him straight, sir?”, and I said, “No, just remain sitting where you are”.