Dearest Gentle Reader, a new prime minister has not yet crossed the threshold of the Prime Minister's Residence and already a £1.8 billion scheme has been quietly interred - while across the Atlantic, two rather more notorious brothers find themselves in custody with fifty-nine charges between them and a lawyer who insists the world knows them innocent. Add a man who changed from trainers to a tie somewhere between Manchester and the Capital, and a summer heatwave that refuses to consult its own calendar, and you will find this Sunday has proved itself quite incapable of restraint.