Peter Rhodes on a new poster, an enigmatic greeting and an age before mayonnaise
According to Labour's latest posters: “Tory recklessness is ruining Britain's standing on the world stage. Only Labour has a plan to restore it.” Come off it. If Labour had such a master plan, the Tories would have nicked it by now.
“Back again, dear oh dear,” muttered King Charles as he greeted Liz Truss at their weekly chinwag. And that was it. Five little words and no explanation. Was anyone else reminded of his father Prince Philip's tendency to say whatever came into his head? Historically, they used to say the “royal disease” was haemophilia. Maybe now it's footinmouthitis.
Unlikely moment in All Creatures Great and Small (C5), set in the war years, when a working-class Yorkshire lad said his favourite sandwich filling was egg mayonnaise. Hardly. Posh folk in London may have known about mayonnaise in the 1940s but it hardly featured in provincial English life for another 20 years.
