Good Old John Major

I always knew that he'd say something sensible eventually.

Actually, Major is a fascinating figure, and far more significant than his successor. He is also only a few years away from being a national treasure, whereas Blair (like Thatcher) is rightly destined to be hated to, and well beyond, the grave.

On the 42 days question, the Police are unsurprisingly staring to come out against the idea of keeping people in their stations' holding cells for six-week stretches. And shame on the DUP if, in return for some financial deal in Northern Ireland, it saves this measure, never even employed in Great Britain at the height of the IRA bombing campaign, and frighteningly reminiscent of the best recruiting tool that the IRA ever had.