1. ‘The closest thing to a Blot on the Private Eye editor's escutcheon seems to be his failure to seek planning permission for alterations to his 16th century timber-framed home.’ ‘It is an indelible part of his CV, a Blot on a distinguished public career, a piquant episode for the more mischievous obituarists eventually to recount.’

2. ‘The closest thing to a Blot on the Private Eye editor's escutcheon seems to be his failure to seek planning permission for alterations to his 16th century timber-framed home.’ ‘It is an indelible part of his CV, a Blot on a distinguished public career, a piquant episode for the more mischievous obituarists eventually to recount.’