Richard has had me in his cross hairs since I appeared a week or two back. The Glueman as any fule no, was a character in a wartime film who threw glue into the hair of landgirls at night to stop them going out with GIs, who would otherwise attend his lectures on archaeology and the beauty of the England.

To the extent that he had an obsessive interest in preserving 'the old ways' he reminded me of myself. Compared to Mr Bridge he was clearly a dilettante and tyro. RB operates so far beyond the irony curtain discussion founders immediately, as it has done here. The man is on rails, I was tweaking his points.