Dearest Gentle Reader, this Friday brings dispatches of the gravest and most impudent variety - a convicted murderer who would appear to have found one final move upon the board, a Prime Minister who has relocated the entire machinery of government to Manchester, and a Principality quite literally visible from space. This Author's lorgnette has rarely been so thoroughly exercised.

Dearest Gentle Reader, this Friday brings a dispatch so richly stocked with folly, scandal, and civic catastrophe that this Author scarcely knows where to begin - save to say that the rivers are not safe, the energy companies are not sorry enough, and the leader of a political party has contrived not to vote in his own party's elections. Pour yourself something fortifying, and read on.

Dearest Gentle Reader, this Tuesday has delivered an embarrassment of riches - a Prime Minister under siege from his own ranks, a shadowy smuggling king unmasked, and a politician whose houseboat has proved considerably more costly than advertised. This Author has all the details, and not a single one is dull.