Drunk in France: coffee or tea from a Salut! mug

This is not exactly as it will look if you decide to buy the new Salut! mug. The text will be bolder and larger. But read on if you wish to register support for the site and impress friends with how you drink your tea or coffee ...

Salut!, as loyal readers know, came into being at the beginning of October 2006 after The Daily Telegraph decided 29 years of me was quite long enough and took all of five minutes, in a conference call from London to Paris, to fire me. The Telegraph has subsequently gone downhill, or so I'd like to imagine, while Salut! thrives in an impecunious sort of way.