Heroes to rescue stranded gnomes? We're a little short of them

Daring gnomes escape from the Ever Given...© Dmitriy Os Ivanov

A (light-hearted) Twitter poll by Flexport, which has some 43 boxes on the Ever Given, asked: should the company a) wait patiently; b) sue everyone; or c) carry out a daring hostage rescue operation? Perhaps unsurprisingly, the latter option won 60% of the vote, with people suggesting daring helicopter or drone raids, or making use of Flexport’s recent hiring of ex-marines.

Which leads us to the latest Ever Given crisis – some of the containers were full of garden gnomes, and ...