Apart from making monkeys out of us, NYSC attempted to camelize us. It may be because they discovered only a few like that round beautiful lady were born with tails, they fabricated a camel-simulating programme […]

“Since we are both obsessed with our dogs” — Ms. Muir has a whippet; Ms. Osborne, a lurcher — “we thought we’d try pets,” she said.

We know the prime minister regards environmental matters as mere tokenism. But we at least expected his ritual once-a-year speech on the issue.

BLUFF OR POKER [title of a chapter]