No, I'd say 6ft 3in would do, McGrath. It's a term I use pretty loosely. I recall a CEO of a Footsie plc who, like Marcinkus, used somewhat aggressive language. We always reckoned him to be a managerial thug, though from memory he was no more than 6ft. Got the job done so well though, that in effect he answered to no-one, again like Marcinkus in those 20 years as boss of the Vatican bank.)

Hrothgar, at least cardinals over 80 are barred from voting on the next pope. Curiously enough, one cardinal has just been exposed as being 80-plus when he'd claimed to be five years younger - but there seems to have been no deceitful intent. He'd knocked five years off his age way back in WW2, to avoid service in the Red Army, and was stuck with the changed documentation thereafter.