Most of these new jobs were in Victoria, being workers employed by the state government to build secret compounds for people who break lock-down rules.

In London men-only clubs most members don't know what networking is, having been born in an age when civilised people clocked-off as soon as they left work. For lunch.

Why did the police bother to get the search warrant, oil up the handcuffs, fill-up the divvy van, etc? Surely a modern police state would have simply poisoned the alleged serious criminal with Novichok.

Democrats: heal the planet, heal the wounds of racism, heal the American soul, etc. This is therapy, not policy or politics. Republicans: four more years of not-a-Democrat-in-the-White House. Even if that means having a lunatic there instead. Sigh.

Henry Kissinger said "power is the ultimate aphrodisiac." A few bureaucrats within the Victorian government must now be looking like Woody Allen as he was about to enter the Orgasmatron in the movie Sleeper.

Former PM of Italy, Silvio Berlusconi, aged 83, has split with his partner, Francesca Pascale. She started having breakfast with him, as it were, when she was 23, and is now aged 35. But she does get €20 million for her 12 years of, err, enthusiasm.