The Last Ditch by Tom Paine

I am not sure it means a break in blogging but my sojourn on the beautiful island of Mauritius may well change the tone of my posts. My only worry right now, truly a first world problem, is as to whether my friends’ French satellite TV package includes a channel showing today’s German Grand Prix.

Meanwhile, as I sit in the sunshine after breakfast, I wonder why G4S’s chairman should have to worry about losing £1 billion per year of government contracts over his company’s Olympic cock-up, while governments which always cock everything up, and rarely on such a small scale, never lose their contract with the taxpayer.