From the Halls of St John's Oxford to the Shores of Tripoli

But not to the local phone box and certainly not to Edinburgh.

Richard Thomson asks the appropriate question here.

Nice one!

What I'm wondering is whether the Queen made a point of going by helicopter to meet Alex Salmond just to annoy Messrs Blair and Brown.

I hope so.

(Thanks to Philip Chaston for the "shores of Tripoli" idea.)