With each passing year more of the old bouilleurs disappear, the privilege dying with them. But my memory of this encounter will endure. I should have remembered the words of the author Peter Mayle: drinking eau de vie in the afternoon "does funny things to the brain".

The director would no doubt argue that the bad taste flows both ways (Hit-Girl says, at one point: "Help me find some pliers, Im going to make this guy eat his own d***" but, if so, its a grim place to end up.

"We are currently working to finalise which areas will take part in the pilots and which models will be implemented, though we are expecting that extended Saturday and Sunday courts will only make up a very small proportion of the overall number of pilots. Decisions will be taken at a local level following discussions with partner organisations in the criminal justice system and the judiciary. The pilots will operate for a six month period and will be evaluated to inform any future decisions."In the Solomon Islands I wanted to take a picture of a group of ex-pats standing around in starched white shorts and shirts, I put the camera down and called everybody to attention for the photograph, at which point they all disappeared

I cannot see any meaningful difference between Ken Livingstone and Lord Haw-Haw. Thanks to the recent batch of Wiki-Leaks, we now know that much of the insurgency in Iraq - an insurgency that has cost the lives of British servicemen - is . Livingstone is broadcasting on behalf of our nation's sworn enemy, just like Lord Haw-Haw. Ed Miliband should move to expel him from the Labour Party immediately and replace him as Labour's candidate for Mayor, just as David Cameron would expel Boris Johnson from the Conservative Party if, God forbid, it emerged that he was a paid employee of the mouthpiece of a fascist regime that denied the Holocaust and murdered British servicemen.From Saturday's Daily Telegraph

Because while it is true that he is an internet sensation, who built his following on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter, it also becomes clear that from the moment at the age of 14 that he attracted the interest of Scooter Braun, now his manager and co-producer of this film, Bieber worked phenomenally hard for success, leaving his native Canada and touring every radio station in America to play acoustic versions of his songs.