THE GREEN TICK THAT BIT HIM IS NOW RED ON THE INSIDE

Eli Rabbit reports Spectator and Breitbart columnist James Delingpole believes his self-diagnosed  "brain fog" is due to 'Chronic Lyme Disease', a malady whose only cure entails cruising the world to find a doctor who has ever heard of it. So Dellers  has begun crowdfunding.

Some of the money may go to exploring how Underwater Volcanoes, Galactic Cosmic Rays and Lyme Disease, not CO2, drive claret prices.

TRY A MUSKETOON WITH YOUR MUSCADET!

The Spectator, in association with Private Cellar and Thames Leisure, invites you to join Low Life correspondent Jeremy Clarke and drinks editor Jonathan Ray for a spectacular day of cocktails, claret, clays and cruising on the River Thames on Friday October 12.

We will board Thames Sailing Barge Will – the largest such craft in existence, built in 1925 – at North Greenwich Pier at 10.15am and slip downstream through the Thames Barrier to Thamesmead. Here we will moor up and, under the expert tutelage of armourer John Hargreaves, will enjoy 90 minutes or so clay pigeon shooting, using weapons that are likely to include a Browning and a Beretta over-and-under, a pump-action shotgun, a 100 year-old side-by-side game gun and an antique naval musketoon.