No one wants to intrude on the grief of others but surely banning uniformed police en masse from parading with the drag queens and posing-pouch jock-strappers for the alleged crimes of one officer is exactly the kind of 'stereotyping' that the Left – and the Mardi Gras parade most definitely dresses its politics to the Left – spend so much time complaining about

'The Akehurst family had veered from Non­conformity to Anglicanism but by then the Bible was less an adjunct to piety than a family heirloom. In my own childhood it was lodged in a strongbox at the bank and only rarely taken out for family inspection or to show a curious friend. And so, wrapped in brown paper, it came down to me'