Dearest Gentle Reader, this Tuesday brings bombers that have vanished into the Atlantic, a whistleblower whose story grows darker by the hour, and a fraudster whose downfall was his own inability to hide his Lego collection. This Author has seldom encountered a morning's intelligence so richly stocked with the grave, the scandalous, and the magnificently absurd - and she would not dream of keeping it from you a moment longer.

Dearest Gentle Reader, this Monday has arrived bearing gifts of a most alarming variety - bombers in midnight flight, a prince at war with his own search warrants, and a party leader banned from a country he declined to offend. This Author has barely set down her cup before the Kingdom contrived to outdo itself on every front.

Dearest Gentle Reader, this Monday brings a palace squabble over a bed nobody shall be sleeping in, a pizza alibi that has now been formally investigated and found entirely lacking in evidence, and a patriot of the people whose personal arrangements turn out to be rather more generously funded than he saw fit to mention. All this, and a moment of genuine grace besides - but you shall have to read on to discover which story earns it.