Time Travel

Ilya got a week off in episode 17, and missed a bloke getting on a plane with a gun in a shoulder holster! They really were different times back then if you could get away with something like that.

Well, yes

Labour’s current leader, Sir Smarmer, is behaving like Dr. Corbyn’s monster with his desire to price the offspring of poor people out of posh schools.
    But it has been pointed out that if the wonks in charge of university selection are deliberately excluding candidates from better schools, he’s doing the poor kids a favour.
    Pretty much along the lines of: “I’m not going to shoot you today, but I might tomorrow.”

Nothing changes

Wow! I hadn’t realized that the Schmuck From Uncle is so old that it started off in black & white. Back then, the Russians were the bad guys; apart from Ilya, of course. And they still are.

Waste of time

Why do bad guys demand a lawyer after Maigret has outwitted them? Won’t do them any good. How come even the clever ones are too dense to see that?

Pulling the ladder up

I suppose it’s inevitable that Sir Smarmer would feel a need to claim he’ll try to force private schools out of business if he gets to be prime minister. It’s what the looney Labourites seem to do. Hypocrisy R Us.

Get out of that

One of the perils of recording films to watch later with fast-forwarding through the adverts is trying to record one daft sciffy film only to find that the TV channel showed a different one for no apparent reason.

Useless bunch

Well, that’s Sky for you. Half a dozen episodes of the final series of Stargate SG-1 left, boot them into touch, who cares? I suppose I can always record some episodes of the Schmuck From Uncle if I get desperate for something to watch in the evening.