iPadding at last - and Mandelson too

This is the first post from my new iPad.

 I appreciate that I am late in this game and that there may be no new praise to give to this remarkable reading machine.

 I am not sure I have quite maximized it for writing.But doubtless that will come.

 Buying it was a success in itself, a morning trip to Regent St with TLS commercial director Jo Cogan, a wearily smiling promise from a boy in a blue T-shirt that an iPad might be available soon, a painstaking registration requiring memories of a...