The Heroin question: like Keith Richards once said: "I don't have a drugs problem, I have a Police problem". One might imagine that he could afford to buy the best, most of the time, which could explain a lot and corroborate the perception of the blackmarket rather than the substance as being the problem, were any further corroboration needed.

One despairs of being governed by idiots and crooks, but to quote another rock luminary : "It's alright Ma, I ain't got nothing to look up to". Ain't that the truth, Bobby: Churchmen, Politicians, Royals, Financial Institutions, Courts, Police - and so it goes......