Another attack, this time in Manchester, and as usual the only good news is that there’s now one less terrorist in the world. Seems that once again it was a lone nut-job, although ISIS have since claimed responsibility which shows that they’ve got the same ‘management claiming all the credit’ problems that other organisations have, we’ve all had jobs like that I suppose.

Manchester is a great place though, in spite of George Osbourne trying his hardest to dilute its ‘Madchester’ edginess with his unique brand of oddness. I always half imagined Gideon George looking out of his car and seeing people going to a rave in high-vis clothing and assuming that they were folk on their way to a conference about the Northern Powerhouse. It’s also fantastic to see that Manchester has already erected a huge sign on one of their buildings to tell the world that they remain as one, Manchester united. In the mean time islamic extremist remains a deeply complicated geopolitical issue but let’s all post some British flags on Facebook and see if it fixes the problem this time round.

And one last thing, on the subject of the intelligence services was that today saw the passing of James Bond actor Roger Moore and I raised an eyebrow so to speak when I remembered the old joke that Viagra might not make you James Bond, but it will make you Roger Moore.