Viewed from the boardrooms of Britain, the market is becoming more multicultural than could have been imagined just five years ago.

Were it a draught for Juno when she banquets, / I would not taste thy treasonous offer.

“When women are emancipated, or feel they are about to be,” writes Laver, “they invariably steal some article of male attire: the hat, the coat, the waistcoat, and finally, the trousers.” No be-pantsed and booted militant of Women’s Lib would quarrel with that.

Generation Jones listened to a lot of classic rock when young.