She's coming out, screamed the smallest boy, with the whitest face, the most beetrooty nose, the thinnest blouse, and the most precocious intellect ever seen or heard of.

The meeting came to a grinding halt when the two sides could not agree.

The convention also delivered a slap to the technocrats who have held the reins of government for more than a decade.

Rather than sleeping the sleep of a very drunk man, I sleep the unsleep of a wizzed out partygoer after a couple of gees too many in the company of Uncle Charles.