Nothing Too Serious

The Barbarians are at the gate. The ramparts have been breached and the very entrance to the city is in the hands of the Vandals or, more accurately, the Goths.

Welcome to this first meeting of the Flag Options Panel (FOP).

''M'lud, may it please the court, I represent the defendants in this case, which in the opinion of any sensible practitioner of the law should never have come before this august assemblage of the finest minds in the profession, excepting perhaps my learned friend the prosecuting counsel who is, incidentally, neither learned nor my friend.

You will have heard many times the politician who thinks ''referendum'' is pronounced ''refrendum''.