I like to think I strike a balance between being too strict and too lenient with my children.

To the honorable Sir William; Cecill Knight, principall Secretarie to the Quenes most excellent Maiestie.

'I know I spoke chuff, aye, but – she wouldn't listen. She'll never agree ...'

The risks of mission creep and a deepening quagmire leading to nation-building would arise only if ownership of the uprising was appropriated from the Libyans by the West, as would happen with ground troops.