There can be no excuse for the startling incompetence of the Home Office in allowing this man to escape custody before he has been deported. This would not have happened if it were not for this Government's incompetence.

This is the latest in a long line of failures. This serial incompetence beggars belief.

This is an office-to-home notebook.

If the problem is more widespread then the home secretary is accountable.

That is not insignificant. But it isn't enough to dislodge traditional video services such as home video rentals, box office and traditional TV watching, because you only have 25 percent of the American TV households capable of doing it.

I don't like to be disturbed at home; I tell the cable office not to call me before 6:30 AM, unless there's a war.