Her counsel has complained of the charge of the judge, as unprecedented, an innovation on our rules of practice, misconstructive of the true meaning of the law, and referring to laws not applicable to the sale.

Or to put it in the more colourful language of our Prime Minister: The secret to improving rail transport, in my view, is you need to find the right arse to kick. Unfortunately, since the abolition of the Strategic Rail Authority (SRA) in 2005, the DfT has ostensibly been in direct control of railway policy setting, and this has meant that the only arse the government has been able to kick is its own.

The people practice what mischiefs and villainies they will against private men, whom they malign by stealing their goods, or murdering them.

What Governor Schwarzenegger is proposing is the de facto Mexifornication of California.