Nothing has changed in our relationship with East West. We have no relationship with East West. We've been withholding our labour for almost seven years now.

It's almost impossible to get east-west in the afternoon rush hour unless you have an hour or two to spare,

The citizen is becoming a pawn in a game where nobody knows the rules, where everybody consequently doubts that there are rules at all, and where the vocabulary has been diminished to such an extent that nobody is even sure what the game is all about.

We decided to play the NEC because we were asked to, and because we actually rather like the place: we've always enjoyed doing it before. We don't often get sensible offers to play in the UK, so most years we just play on the mainland, with the occasional exotic detour.

If you want to go east, don't go west

I have been influenced in my thinking by both west and east.