However, unlike one of those terrorists we’ve been passing special legislation to deal with, I’m not convinced that it’s ‘armless.

I’ll get me coat.

My personal vice is Amity Shlaes in the FT. Her column is the media equivalent of taking heroin by injecting it under your foreskin; it’s pretty much an admission that you’ve reached rock bottom, but it’s also degrading and unpleasant enough that you aren’t tempted to do it too often.

(to be honest Shlaes isn’t that bad, but I couldn’t think of anyone who I still read who merits that analogy).

You made the same "just say no" point re: me and "Janet Daley". You might have had a point but luckily in my case there were supply problems with the quality of the stuff deterioating dreadfully and I was forced to move onto the weaker "Aaronovitch" .

I can’t see that happening in the case of "Oliver", so perhaps John can wean himself off him by a regime of increasingly mild doses of "Totten"?

Franco set himself on keeping out of the War

…which is an interesting interpretation of the tinpot midget begging Adolf to join the fun. Unfortunately for him, Adolf had no need to supplement his Panzers and Messerschmits with a troop of Bible-toting falangists on bullock carts.