In recent years, as I battle for facts and logic on anti-social media, my critics have taken to calling me old in the hope of damaging me. They seem to think that because I am old, therefore I am stupid.
Like a stunned beast on a conveyor belt, Britain slowly trundles towards what everyone seems to think is the inevitable election of a Labour government.
Alex Salmond had flown in from Berlin to appear before the Scottish affairs committee and, going by the glint in his eye, he may not have needed an aeroplane.