The gloves come off ...

Or, 'rolling stones and moss'. Stolen fully and completely from my pal Lambert:

I have the feeling that the pebble that started the avalanche that will be 2006-2008 went down the mountainside sometime in the last six months, and that alia iacta est - Though we don't know what the outcome is, yet, the forces that will bring it about already have huge momentum, and all of us are riding the rocks down the mountain.

It's going to be a very interesting couple of years, not least because we're going to have to gut the press to win. As the ginned up controversy on Kos indicates.