In the lounge, Lorenson was at a desk in the corner looking over his notes, and suppressing a smile at this bit of one-up-manship (or even worse, one-up-womanship) over Brewster.

There is a long line of these types, some cleverer than others: Rod Liddle, Richard Littlejohn and Jeremy Clarkson, with Toby Young, James Delingpole and Martin Daubney on the subs’ bench. They present as dissenting voices, speaking truth to the elite. In reality, they just preach to people their age. To call this circle jerk of intolerance a culture war is to ennoble it.

When it comes to DIY, he's a real pro.

And here to one long thought-delivered ease Be ours now to fling back unfurrowed brow, Rose-cinctured, to the need of drowsy eyes, Which ope but to the presence of some stir More musical, of breezes that inbear As 'twere one last word from the tranced West.