The Brits do have a way with words. From today’s issue of The Sun:
Rapists, paedophiles, a killer and drug-dealers may pocket £300,000 after prison sarnies gave them food poisoning.
A group of 164 inmates were all poleaxed after eating egg and cress rolls infected with salmonella.
Their lawyers have filed a High Court claim demanding £1,800 compensation for each convict for "pain, suffering and loss of amenity".
They are almost certain to get some money because the Ministry of Justice has admitted kitchen staff at South London’s Wandsworth Prison failed to cook the eggs properly.
A Whitehall source said: "There is no doubt that compensation will be paid, but the amount of money the prisoners are after will be contested vigorously. There will be very little public sympathy for this."
And now, a message from Julian Assange: