Well, it’s fair to say that Gordon has tackled me with a piece of unadulterated political bribery by his reference to both Cicero and Demosthenes in his speech at Citizens UK yesterday. My soft spot for Gordon may have been tempted to grow a little softer by his explicit naming of my already soft spots (yes, I’m not sorry to say I have soft spots for Cicero and Demosthenes – legitimately so too, for I’ve spent much metaphorical time with both). But no, come on now – do you really think I might be so fickle as to let my first ever general election vote be swayed on such a small moment of literary collaboration? Maybe. Or maybe not. Thursday shall see. (No, seriously, I do actually consider policies and the like – I’m not all about ancient flirtations and ideals; however, like Stephen Fry said he is in his most recent blog, which is most definitely worth a scan through if you are still undecided, I’m all about the gut instinct.)

Now, in an act of complete and utter political defiance – a raspberry blown in the face of Thursday’s election, if you will – I’m going to post a pretty and entirely irrelevant picture. Because I can. And because: