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The Telegraph asked themselves what front page woud make the jiahdis the happiest bunnies in the whole world and went ahead and did it anyway. http://www.politicshome.com/uk/article/78883/the_daily_telegraph_wednesday_22nd_may_2013.html Guardian's wasn't much better. Express had a pic of Kate.

It may provide something interesting for you to chew over in your next Whither Red Toryism seminar, but I find it hard to separate these people from the party that passed section 28. Especially when Tebbit sits down to warn us all about the dangers of a lezzer queen, artificial insemination and...

That's the position of the Tory party, including its leader. But the majority of their backbenchers chose to effectively say they don't believe their leader and vote for a tut-tut motion against their govt's Queen's speech. Tebbit's 'weak jokes' as you call them have actually been a fairly...

Think immigration and welfare have more traction than Europe (even though the former is linked), which never shows among lists of main voter concerns. All makes it even odder that so many of them are getting het up about gay marriage. It's like waving a flag saying 'We're fucking mad'.

Expecting to hear more of this kind of shit (was it a Ukip candidate saying something similar? Not that he'd hit someone, obv) given current state of political argument. Link is here if you don't have Times login

Why is the Tory party so mental about Europe though? Aside from the Little Englanderism, obv, and it being a socialist conspiracy to steal our freedumbz with working-time directives and the like. I mean, obviously it's important, but they're 24ct crackers. Is it cos the party has never...

or more like that the tangle of vested interests and long-term contracts will make it impossible?

A calamitous final fortnight, only just got CL qualification.

It's way worse than Major. It looked worse than it was under him cos it only needed a handful of dissidents to deny him his majority. Now on gay marriage and the QS resolution you've got the overwhelming majority of the non-payroll vote going against Cameron. It's catastrophic for him.

Seriously though, wtf?

Oh dear. You're right, though. The wage budget isn't great – reports in Telegraph this week said 4th lowest in Championship, though 10th is the more commonly touted figure – and we will lose our best player Bridcutt to Prem club this summer and one or two of the better loanees, starting with...

Hard to think of a worse week in Brighton's recent history. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/22563280 Actually that BBC report doesn't tell anything like the full story. This is better. Seems Gus thought he could face down one of the world's best poker players, a man who's singlehandedly...

Times does that too. I used to subscribe – a Guardian editor looked at me like I was insane when I told him this – but if you subscribe to weekly ST delivery (as my folks do, so I just use their log-in) you get an online sub. Not as good as the paid online sub (I miss the digi version of the...

I thought that when the Times announced its paywall, but I don't think it had that effect.

Very odd. That's the same price as the Times, which charges about 3 times as much for the paper version. Also, I'm not really sure what you'd get. Most Sun stories don't go much deeper than the headline and the sleb goss they specialise in is often canibalised across the media within hours...

I'd like to be shocked by this, but when you've got a supportive press and a neutered BBC there's really no disincentive to peddling this kind of noxious shite.

You get off light. When I was a kid, the old people moaning at you had all either been part of, or at least endured the deprivations of, WWII. People really did say 'I didn't fight in the war for you to [insert act of moral depravity here].' There's not a hip op in the world that can bestow the...

I don't know if you want to reconsider your fondness for that line, but it's one we've got used to – usually from people you wouldn't want to be associated with. And well said Slothrop.

What, all of it? How did that go?

Third goal was an utter disgrace, you couldn't see a more blatant foul. Nothing wrong with a changing of the guard though and I hope Dortmund go on to win.