'The legal rules inevitably do not cover all circumstances, including those that I found myself in.' - Dominic Cummings

Your wife was ill, you thought you were infectious and you've got a kid. Those circumstances are not exceptional. They're commonplace.

But if this is a defence, I think I'll pop out and nick a dog, because I quite fancy a third dog and I've never read a law that says JK Rowling specifically can't steal dogs.

'Often answering questions doesn't clear up confusion, it increases confusion' is what I'll say to the police when they want to know where I got my new labradoodle, Dominic.