The NZ Herald recently ran a cricket story from Britain’s Telegraph with a brilliant caption. Whether it was the Telegraph’s or the Herald’s is not clear, but well done to its author. It brought back fond memories of the peak years for newspapers, namely the 1980s, when clever and witty caption-writing was something they prided themselves on, and in New Zealand, specially the then Dominion.

Enoch Powell is best remembered for his famous observation that all political careers end in failure.