Cutting up the fabric of society

Maybe the Tory donors-for-dinners (look, I’m trying) scandal should be viewed as part of a broader dining obsession within the party.

On this, Tom H is in fine form:

“It starts with an inability to recognise a fish fork, and all too quickly it ends with beating old ladies to death in the street.”

Although, as he readily accepts, he’s got some magnificent material to work with…