Little-known (by me, anyway) fact about Gene Wolfe

He invented Pringles (sort of).

Makes you think, eh?

(In other news, Ursula le Guin: "Yes, Sunny Delight was one of mine"...)

What's the story, smarmy Tory?

The trouble with the Tory leadership contest is it's so difficult to decide who you want to win it. What a fine body of fellows they are!

• David Cameron -- shiny-faced youngster from the warzone of Eton College. Was at Oxford the same sort of time as me, although I don't think our paths would have intersected very much.


• Kenneth Clarke -- greedy crook who's got rich from giving people lung cancer. Seems almost human compared with the others, but teachers and NHS staff who were around in the 80s wouldn't agree.


• David Davis -- has managed to portray his odd weekends in the Territorials as something out of Bravo Two Zero. Once set his squad up for an ambush such that they were firing directly across a narrow road at each other.


• Liam Fox -- even fellow-Tories think he's a swivel-eyed right-wing loon. Insists on being addressed as 'Dr'. Encouraged rumours that he was going out with Natalie Imbruglia.
  


• Malcolm Rifkind -- trusted grey cohort of John Major, harking back to an era when Tories were anonymously incompentent as well as vicious.

I would set up a poll, but I'm too much of a cheapskate, so let's keep it simple: which one do you want to see as leader, and why?