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"The Bendi is all things to all men although, naturally, we also teach how to drive other types as well," said Jonathan Handley, the director who started the company six years ago.

Chancellor Gordon Brown tried to be all things to all men yesterday with his 10th Budget ( setting out a vision of Britain under a possible Brown leadership.

Bush is not trying to be all things to all men. Oil the contrary, Kerry's straddles are troubling in one who aspires to trustworthy leadership.

Serving as lynchpin to Knapp's argument is the affinity between players and Erasmus, who desired, after the Apostle Paul, to be "all things to all men." The goal of players, seen in the light of Erasmian evangelism, is to establish an inclusive community; the player is thus seen as the accommodating opposite of the precise Puritan, who understands neither playing nor godly mirth.

Going back to that "all things to all men" theme, the Yeti is also a proficient performer on tarmac, which, let's face it, is where almost all of those bought will spend their time.

A body with no confidence in its own leadership, it's now trying to bend in any direction so it can be all things to all men. The result, of course, is that it has ended up pleasing nobody - hardly anyone has a good word to say about the rules, or the people that wrote them.