Returning to their desks at the beginning of April 1966, exhilarated by the size of the Labour majority, Ministers found that there had been no improvement in the economic outlook while they had been away; indeed it had grown worse.

Let's just go for a walk on the Downs.

Rimmer ducked his body low into his chair, so just his head remained above the table top, and peered past the backs of the examinees in front of him, waiting for the adjudicator to make his move.

His mocking appropriation of the style is of a piece with the popified magnifications of Roy Lichtenstein's mid-60s brushstroke paintings […]