I have no doubt children believe in James Bond as well as Father Christmas and who can blame them when the head of MI6 referenced Bond and Q in a recent speech.
I don’t often hear from Babs and when I do she is usually in a hole and needs help. No Time to Die isn’t the most auspicious title for her new James Bond film.
There are so many niceties if you move in royal circles. The Duke of York has “stepped back”; Michael Fawcett has “stepped down”. It sounds as if they are Scottish dancing at Balmoral.
Stephen Potter knew he was onto a good thing when he wrote Gamesmanship in 1947; Lifemanship, One-Upmanship, Supermanship, Christmas-ship and Golf-Gamesmanship soon followed.