Terry Prone It happens. It shouldn’t happen, but it does happen. It happens on a Friday evening. It’s the end of the week, a chance to unwind, get out a couple of bottles of wine.

The British justice secretary, Michael Gove, has apologised for comparing economic experts warning about Brexit with the Nazis who smeared Albert Einstein in the 1930s.

Fears of a fresh terror threat are growing after Downing Street revealed suspicious packages sent to armed forces recruitment offices bore “hallmarks of Northern Ireland-related terrorism”.

Verbal battles over Damian McBride’s memoirs at the Labour conference escalated into actual fisticuffs, as the ex-spin doctor’s publisher stepped in to stop a protester disrupting the publicity drive for his controversial memoirs.

TWO minutes after the BBC’s exit poll was announced last Thursday night, Iain Dale, the Conservative commentator, blogged: “Don’t panic chaps and chapesses.