Even by Keir Starmer's standards, the Chagos debacle has become an icon of incompetence. There is a fascinating whodunnit to be written about the imbroglio.
His frame was thin and his eyes hollow, but in the last images of Alexei Navalny , appearing in court via video link from his Arctic penal colony, the Russian opposition leader was in good spirits.
Celebrity after celebrity was seen sporting a bob, whether teased into 1930s curls like Selena Gomez's or falling in gentler waves in the version favored by Emma Stone.
BOB SEELY: The peace that US President Donald Trump is offering is a potentially fatal one that will lead to greater danger for Ukraine. This is not peace, but delayed capitulation.
Oh, the sheer irony of it! As Government minister Dan Jarvis stands up in Parliament to talk tough on Chinese spying, just three miles down the River Thames, Operation Kowtow is still in full swing.