There was traffic chaos around Silverstone early on Saturday morning as many fans ignored police advice to leave cars and travelbytrain, taxi or on foot.
Ministers must refuse expensive gifts and hospitality, they must travelbytrain when possible (as he did to Brussels on May 23rd) and their cars must respect traffic lights (a novelty for ministerial motorcades).
Edwin Drake had no obvious qualifications to run the Seneca Oil Company except for two: as a retired railroad conductor, he could travelbytrain with a free pass, and--in what is required for the head of any start-up--he was very persistent by nature, indeed downright stubborn.