Doubtless that made everyone feel a lot better.
The affair was doubtless extremely painful for everyone – both men were married at the time and they were team-mates – yet it was framed entirely as a mate's "betrayal" of a mate, the women not bound, presumably, by any code of honour not to sleep with their friend's husband.
Two striking facts about the Hay festival this weekend have been (a) the weather – everyone has doubtless commented on the sunshine blazing down on what is usually a Somme-like vista of mud seen through slanting rain – and (b) the huge audiences for the science talks, with both of the big tents filled to capacity for two talks by Martin Rees and one by Steve Jones.
All of these proposals are significant and will doubtless be studied by everyone interested in collective epistemology.
While further experiments and refined models will doubtless further our understanding, everyone concerned with conservation recognizes the need to make decisions in the present based upon limited data.
But then, citing extended Medicare, the proposed guest-worker programme for illegal Latino immigrants and extra funding for education, he adds an unusual third reason: "George Bush's record is not that conservative...There's something there for everyone".Mr Bush will doubtless try to burnish his compassionate-conservative credentials at the Republican convention.
But if we don't welcome a new generation into the audience (who will doubtless learn theatre etiquette over time, like everyone else), we'll only have ourselves to blame when the auditorium is silent because it's empty.
By dealing with such terrible circumstances with such quiet dignity and resolve, Lowdon and his Marussia team have certainly earned that respect, of everyone in the paddock, and doubtless many thousands beyond.
Overall, I think this synthesis makes for interesting reading, though doubtless there is something in here for everyone to disagree on – such is the nature of the field!
And while everyone else back in Coleraine is doubtless preparing to paint the town red, the Royal Mail may yet be ordering a few cans of a different hue.
