Apparently there has been fevered speculation surrounding my absence during the past month. According to the rumour mill, I’ve resigned/been sacked/gone on strike.
In last Friday’s letters page, Mail reader Ken Howell, from Tewkesbury, in Gloucestershire, joked that I was taking more holidays than Beatrice and Eugenie.
I should be so lucky, Ken. The truth is more mundane. I’ve been under the weather.
As regular readers will know from my last couple of columns at the beginning of July, I’d been in the States for the World Cup, so I could watch the games at a civilised hour rather than the middle of
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