Brits on Pole

It is a maxim drummed into fresh-faced young news reporters before they are unleashed from training college and allowed out into the world to cause trouble. Dog bites man: no story. Happens all the time. Not even slightly unusual. Man bites dog, on the contrary, is a huge story, being something of a rarity.

‘Sort it, or I’m off.’ That’s the ultimatum issued by Jenson Button to his Honda team. And he really hasn’t minced his words, either. He has told the Mail on Sunday: “I can’t be bothered with working my nuts off and qualifying 14th any more.”