Amid the online torrent of applause for Mortimer's new book was this buyer's assessment: "You can hear Bob's voice with every word ... but then I bought the audible version."
Why was French President Macron so furious that Australia canceled an order for French-built submarines, in favor of an alternative between the United States and the United Kingdom? Was it because France had made a sinister deal with the Chinese, secretly installing hidden transponders on submarines that could then be instantly detected by Chinese warships? Absolutely not. I just invented. But if the creators of the show are looking for a second series of the Vigil submarine murder mystery (BBC1), they could use my idea. Frankly, hers were stretching a bit. Was I the only one who hoped that when the intensely irritating detective Amy Silva (Suranne Jones) was locked in the torpedo tube, someone would push the button?
For some of us, this will be our sixth oil crisis. The first followed the Arab-Israeli war of 1973 and the second after the revolution in Iran in 1979. The third was in 2005 when truckers protested the fuel tax and the same in 2007, followed by industrial action and more. Queues in 2012. The lesson of history It is that fuel crises can occur under Conservative or Labor governments and the Opposition always claims to know how to prevent them. After the event.
I remember the crisis of 1979 when the boys who ran an illicit workshop next to our house spent a day filling their cars and pouring fuel into dozens of jerry cans. At the end of the day, we were neighbors of what amounted to a very large bomb. It tends to stay in memory.
Our changing language. "No need to panic for gasoline" means: "Form a neat queue, behind me."
After yesterday's exciting article on the winter vomiting virus, I discovered that norovirus is named after the city of Norwalk, Ohio, where there was an outbreak in 1968.
Meanwhile, at Schitt's Creek ...
