Are there really plans to make a fifth series of the brilliant Blackadder?

The rumour is that there have been secret meetings to discuss it.

Is it a cunning plan though?

The last episode of the genius Blackadder Goes Forth set in the trenches was broadcast 30 years ago.

The worry is that any revival would be a let-down.

Rowan Atkinson is 64, Tony Robinson is 72. Where would the new series be set? In an old folks home?

Fawlty Towers ended after two series. Seinfeld and Black Books could both have had more series, but left their fans wanting more, not feeling bored.

Blackadder doesn't need to go over the top again.

n I have a cunning plan for all our mortgages....

A £6bn fund for farmers and fishermen is just the latest offer in the amazing Tory Party great giveaway.

That's a promise from Jeremy Hunt as both Conservative party leadership hopefuls are making some amazing promises about how they will change and invigorate the country.

Apparently there's billions of pounds sloshing around, just waiting for more money to be spent on schools, police, social services, the armed forces and the war on terror.

Even the Northern Powerhouse and our stricken railway system have earned a mention.

Boris Johnson has even promised a tax cut for those poor people earning £40,000 or more and said he would borrow to spend - something that Jeremy Corbyn has been proposing only to be lambasted by all.

If only they had both been in a position to have done something about it all over the past 10 years...

The austerity project they both followed was brought on by the collapse of the banks in 2008.

It is estimated that we have spent around £125 billion on the banks over the past decade.

There are 11.1 million mortgages in the UK. The UK mortgage market is worth more than £1.3 trillion.

I've always wondered why it as that we gave all those billions to the banks themselves and not to the people who owed the banks.

Imagine what a turbo boost we would have delivered if the government had agreed to pay off some or all of the mortgages owed by each household.

That would have freed up bank funds and given everyone a major spending boost, releasing billions of pounds into the UK economy. There would have been no austerity needed then.