I’m given to understand that this episode of the Funfiltered podcast is especially topical, with my oral labourers covering an array of diverse, hot-button issues. Even if that array is regarded through the unidimensional lens of disappointment.

Superficial glances* at social media expose ever more cess being flung into the pit. I don’t how much more cess the pit can take, assuming that the pit is finite. The pit is encumbered with cess.

Tenably fortunately, my personal domestics have precluded me from indulging in the zeitgeist. No time have I had for the howlings over the Oprah-atic Meg(h)xit† debrief, the Gramophone Awards or the re-appraisal of Winston Churchill (although, to nippily put all matters to rest… Rule, Britannia!, it’s “the” Stallion and Rule, Britannia!, respectively.)

No, no, tyrannising ...