Masonry flying arches strutting the retaining walls in Chorley cutting, Manchester-Blackpool line, L.M.S.R.

“I’m a passionate multiracialist and a very poor multiculturalist,” Martin Amis said a few weeks ago.

I had another role that earned me almost no appreciation at all: I served as the master after classes in the JUG room, where students appeared when they received detention.

Does he take me for a fool?