So counſell'd he, and both together went / Into the thickeſt wood : there ſoon they choſe / The fig-tree ; not that kind for fruit renown'd ; / But ſuch as at this day to Indians known / In Malabar or Decan, ſpreads her arms / Branching ſo broad and long, that in the ground / The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow / About the mother-tree,[…]

With his funny comb-over and shy manner he was a strange man but she knew that he was a good man, and it is goodness that counts.

Philip Miles, defending, said: This was a single instance, there was no allegation of continuing behaviour over a long period of time.

What is now known as “cakeism” – the idea that the UK can have everything it wants merely because it wants it – is becoming, like climate-change denial, the subject of rational discussion.