This, from Harper’s Bazaar: “Clutching a monogrammed teal diary from Smythson, where she was creative director from 2006 to 2010 — ‘I go absolutely nowhere without it’ — Samantha takes me on a tour of the house they have owned for 16 years since David became MP for Witney. We start in the gloriously untidy kitchen, where the radio is playing indie rock from BBC 6 Music. A placard that reads ‘Calm down dear it’s only a recession’ leans up against the window . . .”

When Jeremy Corbyn becomes prime minister, this will be the sort of thing that helped cause it.

I cannot preach. My kitchen sounds much like Samantha’s, my world not so dissimilar to hers, my income, though a fraction