Animal rights activists staged a naked protest at the Pamplona bull run. Now, if the young ladies of Manchester would just stage a nude sit-in of my bedroom we could solve so many of the world’s problems.

Meanwhile, the protesters blocking Le Tour are probably part of a countrywide performing artists’ strike. Only in France would people go on strike for the right to culture.

Elsewhere in Europe, an Italian minister responsible for tourism has done a Howells and insulted German tourists, this as things were settling down after the concentration camp comments.