The remark that did him most harm at the club was a silly aside to the effect that the so-called white races are really pinko-grey.

And as Germaine Greer points out, the “lay,” if finally granted, or an endless series of them, tends to make the womanhating man even more hateful and contemptuous.

She touched on all those issues on Tuesday in her first speech as a candidate, sounding a strong antitax, antiregulation and antispending message.

He's not just wrong, but wrongheaded, about raising the kids.