Tristram Hunt is a highly-regarded academic who has just been offered his dream job, a once in a lifetime opportunity, at one of the world's greatest museums, so bugger off with your dark theories why don't you, Keith. As a matter of fact, he's quite likely a far better historian than he is a politician, having made a good number of blunders that he's had to explain away and with wacky ideas about public schools, and I'm not exactly sorry to see him go.