I have mishandled my time today. Just when I should have been doing a meaningful stint of blogging here, I got caught up in something else, and now I have been summoned away to an Important Meeting which I Don't Want To Miss. I will put something here before I go to bed, but I won't manage anything before midnight. As I say: sorry. Please all read your books and do not misbehave.

Meanwhile, by way of rescuing my reputation somewhat in the eyes of my readers here, I ask you all to take a look at what it says about little old me at the bottom of this posting. Although I notice that, unlike Colby Cosh, I am not awarded my own newspaper column. So, not that brilliant.

Nevertheless: wow.