meanwhile.... The UK is expected to agree to send troops to train forces in Mali, as part of a joint EU mission, at a meeting in Brussels on Tuesday. BBC defence correspondent Caroline Wyatt said there was still no question of British forces taking on a combat role in Mali. But the UK has made clear to France that it is ready to offer more help towards its operations there
Life is a hideous business, and from the background behind what we know of it peer daemoniacal hints of truth which make it sometimes a thousandfold more hideous.