I apologise for the fact that within the space of three days this blog features, yet again, Britain’s “Best-Loved Newspaper”, or however else the Sun comic describes itself these days, but on Saturday morning I noticed their back page headline, “Winners and Loosers!”

The headline referred to a football match the previous evening, during which the “Loosers”, a very large wealthy club, failed to defeat their much smaller and poorer opposition. Perhaps the journalist (and editor) concerned were cracking some sort of joke, maybe because the manager of the “Loosers” is Dutch and he, perhaps, pronounces the word “Lose” as though it has an extra “o”. I have no idea but I hope that is the case.

Political commentators and education experts regularly inform us that literacy standards are at a very low level in the UK and so the most disturbing aspect of the Sun’s headline is the thought that the vast majority of the paper’s 2.2 million daily readership wouldn’t have even noticed the difference.