New Harry Potter stars should show JK Rowling more loyalty than Daniel Radcliffe and co

Infectious smiles were on show from the trio who have landed the lead roles in the upcoming after what was reportedly an exhaustive search. And congratulations go to Dominic McLaughlin, Alastair Stout and Arabella Stanton. Here's hoping they are markedly more generous to the brilliant author who created this fantasy world over a quarter of a century ago and which, with movies, studio tours, video games and theatre sales is already worth over £20 billion, than the original trio. Having made millionaires of , and , they have displayed the kind of loyalty to author that could embarrass Judas himself.

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The yawning chasm between what the entitled chattering classes see as the perfect way forward and what is reality can never have been as amply demonstrated as it was last week over the idea of the declassification of cannabis.

This elite proclaim piously that the drug should be decriminalised for personal use, but concede supply should still be illegal. That creates the insanity of an individual being able to use it, but anyone supplying it is engaged in criminal activity.

To use terminology they're sure to understand, these over-educated and misguided halfwits really are "dopes."

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Nothing speaks of love more than a slap in the face from your loved one after a long flight - or at least that's what French and his wife Brigitte would have us believe. This helps explain my disappointment after we landed in Morocco on the last bank holiday weekend and my fiancée merely smiled at me.

Monsieur Macron and his team haven't got a "Clouseau" if they think we're buying that tosh.

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Now we learn blackout bungler Thomas Woldbye, the Chief Executive who closed down the airport in March, slept through the early stages of the meltdown as his phone was on silent.

As he was paid a total of £3.2million last year, is it that much to ask him to keep his phone on?

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We might have failed in a few weeks back, but let celebrations be unchecked as it is announced the UK has more people working from home than any other European country. And we wonder why our economy is as stagnant as most of our waterways.