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Do I need to get you one of these ?

Had you not heard, they were threatened with a lawsuit by the estate of John Le Carre?

I still remember a very early trip on Eurostar when a party of school kids was disappointed not to see fish out the windows. We missed a trick not painting glowing sea monsters on the tunnel walls.

I might, exceptionally, award that prize to the man who threw the final brick.

These online banking security questions are getting ridiculous now.

Nailed it.

Fingers crossed, but I am already steeling myself for an announcement that FIFA has "made substantial concessions that protect the long term values of football" and that UEFA has withdrawn its objections. And we will never really know who benefited, and how much.

Yes I’ve been saying this for a while. UEFA has been looking for a way to assert more independence and its stance has nothing to do with protecting the “beautiful game” or European culture and values.

I know people like to take the p*ss out of Adrian but this is a great piece of writing.

Can we read anything into that? And even if we could, should we?

Your #5OClockInspiration ... That moment when Science Deniers are inches away from getting it ...

I’m not against this in principle. But in the UK, we already have regulators across many industries who in theory have sweeping powers. But we then populate them with people who have no appetite for the job or sense a political direction not to do the job. They are just shields for politicians. 

It’s really come to something when we find ourselves manning the barricades in support of an organisation as venal and corrupt as UEFA. 

As a recovering anti-trust lawyer, I can see problems with almost every aspect of this. 

Have you tried the Allister Heath Headline Generator tool?

Here's a quick recap of those five stages of climate denial... 1. Deny the problem exists 2. Deny we are the cause 3. Deny it is a problem 4. Deny we can solve it 5. Claim it is too late And we should probably squeeze in... 4.5. Claim we can just adapt www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Not here to defend Yelland but he left The Sun in 2003, before this debate got ridiculously polarised. He’s long admitted the coverage should have been better and more critical.

Is his message that the mother should donate the wealth to Reform instead?

Brighton ticked the box for anonymity? Or exercised its “right to be forgotten”.