Mark Andrews: Bonnie Blue, balaclavas, and 'pub talk' about £500,000 gifts

We certainly need a bit of business experience in government, no doubt about that. But Mr Griffith’s main business role in recent years appears to have been as chairman of the junk-food delivery service Just Eat. Wouldn’t it have been nice if they had found someone whose business involvement had actually contributed more to society than turning our pedestrian zones into lawless race tracks, and making lots of chavs very fat?

Nigel Farage has suspended his right-hand man, Walsall born social-media whizz Dan Jukes, for what he calls ‘loose pub talk’.

It’s certainly true that you sometimes meet some interesting characters in the pub. But I have yet to meet one who introduces me to his rich American dad who has got a spare half million burning a hole in his pocket, which he would love to give to me.

I’ve obviously been drinking in the wrong pubs.

Congratulations to porn star, sorry, content creator Bonnie Blue, who has just given birth to a bouncing, ahem, bonnie baby.

And one thing you can’t fault is her work ethic, none of that maternity-leave malarkey. She’s already posted videos of herself on the toilet on TikTok - it takes all sorts, I guess - and promises to be fully back at work in five weeks’ time.

Bonnie says the child was conceived at a ‘breeding event’ where she procreated with 400 different men, conjuring up images of the sort of thing you might see in an RSPCA raid on a puppy farm.

One thing’s for sure. Father’s Day is going to be interesting.

Nottingham is to become the first city in the country to ban the wearing of balaclavas, and other specified face coverings, in public places.

About time, too. And let’s hope the rest of the country follows suit.

The libertarian in me is uncomfortable in telling anyone what they should wear in their own time, although when you look at the state of some of the people around town it’s not half tempting to extend the ban to cover crop-tops, flip flops, Lycra and shorts for anyone over 40.

But I cannot think of a single legitimate reason why anyone would need to walk around town wearing a balaclava. Apparently they are sold for use in extreme sports such as snowboarding or mountaineering, but there’s not a lot of that going on in Shrewsbury or Wolverhampton during the hottest summer on record. Ok, I’ll grant it’s acceptable if you are a serving member of the SAS, or filming an episode of The Professionals. Otherwise, wearing one is essentially an admission that you are up to no good.

Of course banning them is the easy bit. It is illegal to ride privately owned e-scooters, but everyday we see people flagrantly defying the ban, and the authorities seemingly incapable of stopping them.

But if the leaders of Nottingham can rid the streets of balaclava-wearing hooligans, they will be setting an example for the rest of the country to follow.