Apologies to any children or sensitive types reading this, but I'd be even stronger with my words, and describe it as a ruddy miscalculated misadventure of formidable nincompoopery!

Yeah, same here. 😊

Must be that famous, "bulldog spirit" of theirs.

Difficult to argue that. Unless you're Salman Rushdie, of course!

Exactly! Well, apart from Vlad after acquiring Claris' shawl, obviously!

To be fair to the antagonistic stoker, he's probably just frustrated. Stoking the boilers when what he really wants to be stoking is Shailagh Hacker.

Ahhh, who among us can honestly say we haven't romanced Smethells at one time or another? 😄

In hindsight, I probably shouldn't have used this as my icebreaker that one time I went speed dating. 😔

For devil's advocacy purposes, there is the outside possibility that Nathan Gill is simply so turgid, unremarkable to be around and devoid of wit or charisma that all these prominent Reformites simply forgot ever having come across him. It would also explain why he was headhunted by the Kremlin.

That's the face of a coyote who's just heard Acme are putting their prices up.

A quackish snake oil merchant and an impressionable meatball. Can't image this'll get the same Hollywood treatment that Frost vs Nixon did, in the years to come.

In much the same way that Peter Sutcliffe was a "transformative" lorry driver.

To be fair, I do believe him. However, I also believe that the "White House Doctor" in question is actually a biological researcher on the lookout for a case study into the potential relationship between severe brain damage, carotenosis and fatty liver disease.