A reader writes to point out that Ephraim Hardcastle in the Daily Mail keeps using lines like: “American TV comic Jay Leno, plumbing uncharted fathoms of bad taste, says….”

“I must have read this line at least three times in his column. Why doesn’t the Mail syndicate the gags direct?”

Over to you Ephraim.

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