God keep and preserve the Guardian's Smallweed, who this week reflects on Howard Flight's accusation that Tory policy has been 'sieved'.
In the coming election campaign I hope every publication proffered at press conferences will be greeted with loud unruly cries of 'Has it been sieved?'.
Apart from anything else, how, were it not for Smallweed's good offices, would we ever hear of the Sieve of Eratosthenes?
