Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes.[…]She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, drawing a deep breath which caused the round of her bosom to lift the lace at her throat.

Why did the SDP dream eventually fade? Partly because it succeeded far better inside parliament than out. It might attract some inner-city Catholic traditionalist Labour refugees from Labour's left, but many of those were already gentrifying.

Lowry put out a social media post to his more than 907,000 Twitter followers saying, Miami Heat X Kyle Lowry and Let's Goo!! followed by five fire emojis.

He received sackfuls of hate mail and few letters of support.