Peter Rhodes, one of this newspaper's best-loved writers for more than 40 years, is finally packing away his pen after revealing he has been diagnosed with cancer.
“Let's be more like Switzerland!” exclaimed one excited activist at the Lib-Dem conference this week. I had a momentary mental flash of the stunt-happy Sir Ed Davey flying out of a cuckoo clock pursued by a large wooden bird. Maybe next year, eh?.
Behold, a great social revolution (and possibly the chance for a small bet or two) is upon us. Let us see which appointment our nation can manage without for longer - a deputy leader of the Labour Party or an Archbishop of Canterbury.
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