The Supreme Court agreed yesterday to hear an appeal ofacase involving affirmative action only nine years after it approved limited applicationof the race-based policy in higher education.
This was surely a time for flexibility in the applicationof the rules - just as had been the case when Ferrari illegally released Massa from the pits into the path of another car at the previous race in Valencia.
An applicationof this kind is made through a three minute speech - in this case from the elder statesman of euroscepticism, the Conservative Bill Cash.