She said goodbye in a stammer.

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

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.

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.