I was tramping all over his lovely new kitchen last week wearing plastic overshoe protectors in a vain attempt to stop the hordes of contractors from bringing in acres of red mud from right outside the front door - it was like a scene from the Somme outside, I got a delivery mid-morning and the DHL van man refused to get out of his van

...and in other news, the Daily Mail does a hatchet job on an Olympian athlete in order to fill a page up on its web site, readers comments indicate that a majority of readers now view The Mail Online simply to see how bad it is.



Story summed up as "We signed a monthly lease on this rental property and the landlord has given us six months to quit - Waaaah!"



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There'll be no foie gras on the menu then.

If it's Albert "devising" the menu, I wouldn't be at all surprised to find foie.

No chance.





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Hurrumph.

Foie Gras is no more or less evil than any other farming method, and it's bloody lovely! (twice a year, couldn't eat it frequently)

I suspect that many who consider the production of foie gras to be atrocious still eat eggs, say, that are battery produced.

My early vote for this as the Most Bizarre Claim 2014, and the Biggest Thread Drift 2014 simultaneously. (Unless they stuff the goose somewhere I don't know about).

It wasn't Standee who brought the conversation around to fine dining and, then, to foie gras.



And I'd make him right: anyone who imagines that gavage on, say, a really decent farm, is somehow worse than battery and factory farming – with the millions of animals that go through that process – is bonkers.

He said "than ANY OTHER FARMING METHOD". And you say he's right.



Wanna read it again?

Anyway, back to the plot. Is it right that DLT should face retrial after the last multi-charge fiasco? Or is it fair enough that he gets another session of gavage?



There are times when I can see the argument that there should be a retrial but this surely isn't one of them; a jury has had to sit through weeks of all the details and has acquitted on nearly all charges, and not found sufficient evidence to convict either absolutely or by majority on the remaining two. Given his acquittal on the large majority of charges, which should never have been brought, his age, and the huge impact the charges of which he was innocent have already caused on his life, I don't see the justice in letting the CPS have a second crack. Surely he's been punished enough already, even while not found guilty of any wrongdoing?