institution so what is more shocking is the pus. in other words, the senior official. can you imagine...? can you imagine in a battle the general not coming back? i mean, it is unthinkable. it is completely unthinkable. in fact, voltaire made a joke about it. i don't know if you remember. remind me. he made the joke about admiral byng in 1760, wasn't it? who didn't show enough guts when fighting the french and i think he was hanged at a port and the joke voltaire said was, "pour encourager les autre" — "to encourage the others." if that applies to the top civil servant in the foreign 0ffice, then it surely applies to the foreign secretary as well. we were all on holiday in august and when this happened — that was it.