Nor was she uncaring, mean-spirited or likely to go about spreading a Banbury story of a cock and a bull.

Step into one of the smart clothes shop and it will surprise you to see the “pickyness” of men.

Indeed, part of the problem was that Armstrong was rowing back on so much previous behaviour and years of aggressive lambasting of reporters, officials and team-mates who had claimed he was doping. I don't forgive Lance Armstrong, who lied to me in two interviews. And I suspect most of America won't, either, Kurtz wrote.

Or, as the movielore surrounding a manly male like John Wayne commands, A man's gotta do (pause) what a man's gotta do.