The States seem to have an aversion to products with “blood” in their name. I have to go out of my way to buy German Blutwurst, for example. Fortunately the British are so traditional that they wrap around and become progressive, offering these delicious breakfast cakes. I enjoy them much more than bacon or sausages.
You hear a song, quiet on the radio, underneath somebody’s conversation. You don’t know this new song, but it helps you to remember two bars of another, different song. You desperately want to hear this second song, but you don’t recall anything but those two bars (which are now repeating over and over in your head.) You want to hear that song, but you can’t, because the song that’s playing isn’t that song.
Cameron rejected the view that he was too weak to take on Ashcroft. “I would put it to you that it’s now time for the BBC to go after the Labour party and ask questions about their donors and where they pay tax.