Alas poor Teribus, in possession of a brain fit only for soldiering, which he then fills with the voluminous output of four daily newspapers (all of them broadsheets, he proudly boasts). If he has time to wade through all that entertainment/lifestyle tonnage, generated purely and simply as wrapping for the adverts (and to judge from the sheer ennui of his penultimate post, he clearly has), he would do better to read the Economist from cover to cover each week. Its editorial line is far removed from my own political agenda but it is well written and packed with solid information, usually unspun. But perhaps a bit much for Teribus to absorb, on reflection.

To illustrate the absurdity of Teribus's generalisations, Gervase postulated a similarly absurd generalisation about the navy. Unfortunately this was a bit too complicated for Teribus, who has only a squaddie's brain at his disposal. He took the hypothesis at face value and assumed it to be Gervase's solemnly held conviction. What schadenfreude to see Teribus wasting a good hour or two of his time rebutting an argument that was never made!