Insofar as so absurd a catachresis has any referent, this is "a free country"; so why spend all this time watching Strictly Come Dancing, a programme which I have never seen but which I understand to appeal to quite a considerable demographic, simply for the dubious pleasure of demonstrating the superiority of your taste to theirs? And why the obloquy directed at Mrs Murray for taking part in it? I expect they paid her well for doing so. I bet you wouldn't turn the offer down if it came your way, any of you o-so-much-better-than-the-rest-of-us denigrators! Wherefore the 'incandescence'? Just don't watch the bloody programme, is all.

And what the fact of his mother's taking part in a harmlessly popular bit of tv has to do with her son's woeful performance in a game of tennis, I cannot conceive.

Tho, as Boris Becker said so memorably that time, nobody died at that.

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