Let them eat cake - or maybe a biscuit

Who said the EU was a remote bureaucratic organisation? At least, the high and mighty European Court of Justice deals with the important things in life. The Guardian reports:

Confusion over the chocolate-covered teacake - a dome of marshmallow on a biscuit swathed in milk chocolate - could cost the British government £3.5m after an EU court adviser said the retailer Marks & Spencer should get a refund of the tax it paid during the decades that tax authorities insisted they were biscuits.
The European court of justice's advocate general said in an opinion - which is not binding on the court but is often followed in final rulings - that a company had the right to a full refund of any sales tax wrongly charged.