I'll feel the pulse of my friends and yours, and when we get the lay of the land, the affair can be accomplished much more easily.

Some reasons why Naseem Hamed might have been stripped of his MBE for speeding, where acknowledged wrong 'uns Jeffrey Archer, Shirley Porter and Mark Thatcher kept their honours.

As by the dead we love to sit, / Become so wondrous dear, / As for the lost we grapple, / Though all the rest are here,

I am afraid I must be at bottom, what a cheerful Indian critic has dubbed me, a faddling hedonist […]