The same day's Mail placed the news on Page 10, with the relatively subdued headline "May's Brexit Chief in Bar Blunder". On the cover, instead, was a celebratory piece about the success of the paper's anti-litter campaign, the Great British Spring Clean.
Computers, watching in real time, can immediately detect a blunder, with an onscreen bar rising or falling to highlight crucial mistakes.
Barring a blunder, it's going to be hard for France to retake control.
But when I think of Akiba, I recall not only his eloquence and his heroic martyrdom at the hands of the Romans, but also his apocalyptic blunder in hailing the insurgent Bar Kochba as the Messiah, an error that contributed to one of the major Jewish catastrophes, a holocaust exceeded only by the Germans just half a century ago.
Paul Nicholls' runner has won eight of his last 10 starts, has 11lb in hand of the field according to Timeform and looked outstanding for much of his last race at Newbury, bar his horrible blunder at the last, where he really should have come down.
Friday morning, barring thunder or blunder, the space shuttle Atlantis will cough smoke, spit fire and, in a spectacle no less dazzling for its familiarity, bust free of its earthly trappings, some 2,250 tons somehow rising above the clouds.
What I saw, in short, was a company that has finally embraced the network to a degree that forces its competitors to play catch-up and, barring a horrible blunder on Sony's part, could guarantee some modicum of success for the platform.
Barring some utterly uncharacteristic blunder, Obama will have little trouble on Capitol Hill with Republicans, outnumbered in the House by about 255 to 180 – even though the party has escaped with enough Senate seats to sustain a filibuster.
Barring a disastrous revelation or blunder, Mitt Romney will be a more formidable opponent than many assumed during his rightward lurch to secure the Republican nomination.
He's won medals in two other events, and there was even an benefit to his blunders: he met his wife, a fellow-shooter, when she came over to console him at a bar after his 2004 flub.
