Upon seeing my surname the first person writes: "Is it wrong that my default position was to snigger at that name?"; "It's not wrong it's totally appropriate," came the response.
"Nor am I persuaded that the default position is that a community sentence is the right answer.
"Our default position is that this place and Brussels have no right whatsoever to legislate on Britain.
Gill Cardy explains: "The default position is that interest on a bank or building society account is calculated with the 20% income tax already deducted.
If, however, we leave the European Union without an agreement the default position is that we would have to trade on World Trade Organization terms.
If, however, we leave the European Union without an agreement, the default position is that we would have to trade on World Trade Organisation terms.
Society's default position is that parents should have the last say in such matters because they are assumed to care more for their children than does anyone else.
If there is no agreement, the default position is that the 2013 budget will be rolled over to future years, with an increase for inflation added – a move Westminster would not have any power to reject.
But instead, for the BBC, as for the Guardian and, to be fair, every other media organisation in the country, the instinctive, default position is that any uncontrolled area of the internet, any uncontrolled user generated content, any uncontrolled expression of opinion is at best dangerous, at worst criminal, by definition.
Their default position is that there is no level of taxation below which it would be unwise to go, no tax cut too large not to be taken seriously and no justification for a government any larger than one that could be drowned in a bathtub, as the Republican activist Grover Norquist once put it.
At the moment the default position is that parental controls are switched off.
