Not really Ruth. I'm not waging campaigns on behalf of anyone. You won - hands down.

the middle classes always do.

Mary Maccarthy used to have this apothegm - naked power always discomforts the cerebral.

Maybe Mary was right, but its not going to stop me thinking my thoughts.

However I'm entitled to my opinions. And they are shared by virtually everybody outside the charmed circle.

People don't like being the dog that is waved by this stump on the rump of a once great artistic movement. You can't make us like it.

It offends our intelligence.