Dearest Gentle Reader, twenty-nine thousand lightning strikes, one prime minister departing, and a ticket reseller fined for crimes against the checkout page - this Tuesday has arrived with the subtlety of a thunderclap. This Author has opinions on all of it, including a certain gallery withdrawal that has set the cultural salons buzzing with rather more heat than even the red weather alert can account for.

Dearest Gentle Reader, this very morning brings news of a seventh prime minister since 2016 - a number that should perhaps give us all pause - as well as a hero upon a wrecked train, a former first minister preparing for televised warfare, and a marketing email so spectacularly ill-judged that This Author had to read it twice to believe it. Monday, it seems, has once again declined to disappoint.

Dearest Gentle Reader, this Sunday brings fire, collision, and political paralysis in quantities sufficient to exhaust even the most devoted observer of society's theatre. A prime minister gets on with the job - but which job, and for how much longer? And one rather loud television personality has news that is, for once, entirely welcome.