BOAC, you are spot-on, as usual.
Use of the Daily mail as described by Rainboe is shameful in this day and age. I am disgusted that there are still Captains around with such appalling CRM as to beat studes with the Mail instead of the Telegraph, which, apart from being factual and useful is also being bigger and heavier and thus so much more effective. The "CRM" displayed by Captains who read the Mail is best left unsaid.
God bless Sqn Ldr Gell RAF who introduced me to this valuable technique, though it could be a trifle disorientating half way around a loop...