Rantsville! OK. I can't sleep. I've missed 'Bach before 7' on Radio 3 and I've got a blocked nose. As a result I'm watching News channels and having a whiskey and fizzy water at 7.30 in the morning. Perhaps not all bad. But!

In Paris there are predictions of revolt. Again! Is it five weeks? What do regulars, and also lurkers, here think of France's Revolutionary fervour?