delicious thoughts for April 1st from 17:23 to 17:23:

• Hornblower at loggerheads with council over fresh ban – Bureaucracy gone mad – this small city, where I used to go to school and lived for a number of years, has a unique tradition in the office of Hornblower. The way the local council, which is nothing more than a parish council these days, seems to be acting against the interests of Ripon to preserve a tradition that isn't in the slightest under threat.