Watching Rahul Gandhi going from one temple to another, donning a teeka on his forehead, flaunting his Hindu-ness is a fascinating experience.

He's just pie-eyed, said Dart quietly. God knows how much straight alcohol he's had. Better come over here, Andy.

Soccer players certainly tend not to take fluids on board.

Suddenly the foremost Martian lowered his tube, and discharged a canister of the black gas at the ironclad. It hit her larboard side, and glanced off in an inky jet, that rolled away to seaward, an unfolding torrent of black smoke, from which the ironclad drove clear.