Caz Hildebrand and Jacob Kenedy recommend rigatoni in the Geometry of Pasta, and Christopher Boswell, the chef behind the Rome Sustainable Food project, prefers wholemeal paccheri or rigatoni in his book Pasta, on the basis that “the flavour of the whole grain is strong enough to stand up to the sharp and salty sheep’s milk cheese” (as I can find neither easily, I have to content myself with brown penne instead).

There is a locomotive at either end of the train, one pulling and the other pushing.

Orwell, of course, in Animal Farm and even less in 1984 is in no sense a utopianiser.

He regretted that offices for the enregistration of property had not been established.