Except during the season in town, she spends her year in golfing, either at St Magnus or Pau, for, like all good Americans, she has long since abjured her native soil.

She'd made bibimbap with beansprouts, minced beef, and pre-soaked rice stir-fried in sesame oil.

I have seen (on one of my imaginary tours) the Sultan of Turkey bowstring with his own hands one of his wives who had uncovered her face in public.

Peak TV has meant a surfeit of shows for a growing but ever more fractured universe of consumers.