Tomorrow's Thursday, but I have Friday and Saturday off, so really it's my Friday.

Hollande told cheering supporters in his rural fiefdom of Corrèze in south-west France that he was best-placed to lead France towards change, saying the vote marked a rejection of Sarkozy and a sanction against his five years in office.

Society should study reasonable and just ways of discouraging parenthood on the part of those who are seriously unfitted to cope with its responsibilities.

True, things may have appeared hard at the time they presented themselves but on a hindlook they reveal themselves to have played a contributive part in the growth of the soul.