‘NO, no, I’ll pay,’ you say, not meaning a word of it, but afraid to push it too far. These techniques will make it seem you desperately wanted to cover it but were cruelly thwarted.

MEN on a boys-only getaway are concocting ridiculous reasons for calling the women they share their lives with so as not to lose face.

THE entire media has taken up a chant of ‘Go right-wing!’ aimed at all political parties, while leaping up and down excitedly.

THE first act of new Reform MP Sarah Pochin, who won Runcorn and Helsby by six votes, is to forbid recounts.