You know, this Dalek voice says, The-bonnet's-open, you-are-low-on-fuel, the-engine-tem-perature-is-high, we're-not-going-to-make-it-on-this-one-Nick, we'll-be-walking-after-this-corner.

A teaspoonful of table salt added to a pint of warm, not hot, water makes a good gargling fluid.

She said goodbye in a stammer.

Yet China, like Russia, is now giving us an object lesson in the usefulness of having an open society, where strongmen don’t get to invent their own reality.