We seem locked into a sequence: first comes the denial; then the scandal; then the panic; then, a little later, the reckoning. So, nearly five years after Jimmy Savile, and after Paul Gambaccini, Harvey Proctor and Jim Davidson have added to the sad list of “Memoirs of the Falsely Accused”, we have Simon Warr, for most of his life a teacher of boys at private boarding schools.

I have not met Simon Warr and I missed the television programmes — reality shows with names such as That’ll Teach ’Em about 1950s-style teaching — on which he became a minor celebrity and which, he believes, helped to make him a target of wrongful accusation. However, on the page, he tests some of my darkest prejudices and