A new saint, John Paul, patron saint of CIA assets. Pinochet must wait a little longer for canonisation.

6-year-old child detained on his way to school

I've lived in Hull for about 65 of my 75 years and I've never seen chip spice, never heard anyone mention chip spice. In fact I wouldn't know of the existence of something called chip spice if I hadn't seen it mentioned on the internet. I still don't know what it is.

It's the BBC again, now more pro-Israel than the US government and the US media -

Kerry’s frustrated remarks about Israel were not reported at all in that article, or elsewhere by the BBC online. Careful not to alert its audience to the US Secretary of State’s allegations against Israel, or to carry a narrative that even so much as hinted at them, the BBC said only: “He blamed both sides for taking ‘unhelpful’ steps.” The rest was ignored.

Amena Saleem

Surrender, Avi, you've been headscarfed.

Reading today's "Independent" I came across a term that really annoys me - ex-pat. What the hell is an ex-pat - a renegade Irishman? The intended word is expatriate, someone living in a country other than their own. OK? Some time ago this word was shortened, God knows why, to expat. Then came ex-pat, presumably after the press decided they didn't need to pay sub-editors. This was followed by the back-formation 'ex-patriot'. I've seen both of these examples of slovenly writing and checking in the press. It seems that the Independent, a supposed 'quality' paper, has standards as indifferent as those of the tabloids.