When whiling away the hours in the British Library, I often make use of one of their computers for internet access while I use the laptop for writing on. It saves all that toggling from one screen to another that I can never get to grips with.

Totally by accident, I clicked on a link that said ‘watch the football live’ and discovered that the Euro 2008 games can be seen over the internet. This is fantastic news and it means that one eye can be kept on the full screen match, and er, well, the rest of one’s attention firmly on the report I’m writing…