Do I have any German-speaking chums who can tell me how to say "You must give it back" in German? Formal "you" rather than informal, if that makes a difference.

Rainbow lanyards a good example of something where a competent rightwing government would just get on with quietly banning them without making a song and dance about it, rather than talking a good game and then failing to do anything.

I know it's not entirely rational but I find it really hard to take criticism of our (admittedly flawed) court system from the land of plea bargaining and civil forfeiture and decades-long waits on death row.

Haven't boosted the link to my little poetry book for a while. I suspect everyone who is going to read it has done so by now but just in case... www.amazon.co.uk/gp/… Every copy sold owns one third of a lib.

An interesting book idea would be an attempt to explore the extent to which, over the last century and half, putatively scientific "expert parenting advice" has tracked upper middle-class moral beliefs.