Careful or joke will be on us

We had a bit of fun out of controvassy, while it lasted. But it’s hard to see where controvassy can go from here.

A bit like the new season of Homeland, controvassy is boxed into a corner now.

For years to come, newspaper men will remember the evening they got a back page splash out of the England manager telling a joke about a monkey in space, and they will surely conclude that was as good as it got in the golden era of absolute nonsense.