If your flight is on schedule, you may make it up to Rodney Bay Village in time for a dip off the long golden sands of Reduit Beach (4). Spinnakers bar, right behind the sand, is the perfect spot to take in the sunset, and does two-for-one cocktails from 5pm to 6pm. For supper, head to Flavours of the Grill (5) (001 758 284 7906).

Evra has now been summoned by coach Deschamps and the federation and Lizarazu has put his trusty left boot in.

Before dealing with the substance of Hasan's argument, I want to take issue with his over-reliance throughout the book on the economic "expertise" of others. Again and again, he invokes some supposedly authoritative figure, quotes something they've said or written supporting his point of view, and then ends with a prosecutorial flourish, as if to say, "Ladies and gentleman of the jury, I rest my case." In fact, appealing to the authority of others is to commit the fallacy of argumentum ad verecundiam. It really doesn't matter whether they're Nobel Prize-winning economists like Paul Krugman or former members of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England like David Blanchflower. The fact that they agree with you is neither here nor there. You need to make an argument yourself, not appeal to authority.

I chose to bake spinach, gruyère and quails' egg tartlets because, (a) I could actually find all the ingredients in a normal supermarket, (b) it was Ruby's recipe, therefore destined to succeed (with much angsty pouting along the way), and (c) if I'd attempted any of the others from the semi final, aka French week, it would have been un désastre.

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