In which the pond celebrates the Major, let loose to fly free and wild ...

The pond is as pleased as punch that the reptiles have decided to let the Major out from behind his paywall, or if you like, out of his cage. In the pond's experience, too many birds will ravage their plumage if not allowed to run wild and free …

The Major raises many significant points about recent reporting, not withstanding that he's a week late, compared to Media Watch's summary of those who got it wrong, here ...

Indeed, indeed, it must remain a mystery why people in the media are so gullible and willing to offer themselves up as front while scoring a shekel or two …

That story is here, and they had a couple of goes at the yarn, and discovered some odd company, as you can be found here ...

Sheesh, 970k paid to consultants?

The pond knew it was in the wrong game, but that brought it home.

And so to return to the Major for another gobbet ...

It's impossible to under-estimate how that must have agitated the Major Mitchell and cost him a few tail feathers.

The pond savoured it … "for once the Twitter left has been right about bank rotting", even if it does assume that somehow Twitter is only deployed by lefties, and social media is in the hands of activists, though it possibly helps explain why the reptiles are so useless at these arcane modern forms of communication.

Of course it's all the fault of diversity, and gays, and the useless, pesky, difficult blacks, as devined by the Devine ...

Never mind, the pond thinks it might have discovered a new word and a new concept …reptocracy, which is to say financial advice written by reptiles, struggling desperately to keep the onion muncher and Malware in power, while pretending to give a toss about wicked banks and working class losers.

It can join all sorts of other concepts of a similar kind …