Not for the first time, one has to admire the sheer chutzpah of Mr Salmond.

The sheer chutzpah involved, the pure, bite-sized social media perfection of it, everything went into the mix.

You only have to go to Bray to see the sheer chutzpah -or naivety -of Blumenthal's choice back then.

For sheer chutzpah, proprietors Des and Linda Hayes deserve some annual optimism award for conceiving such a concept in an otherwise bitter recession.