It struck me that we could all do with something to take our minds off toughing MPs, whelk-eyed fascists and swine flu and we haven't had a game of Mornington Crescent for a while.

As ISIHAC is back on tonight, let's have a bash!

We'll play using Benn's Revised and Amended Rules (Fourteeth Edition), don't double-back on the diagonals and if we could avoid whiffling and nadgering on this first game it'll make it easier for all.

I'll start:

Bethnal Green

(I know what you're thinking: A move reminiscent of Belvoir's Standard Opening, but trust me, it's not . . .)