Gentlemen and Players

We all know which party likes gentlemen’s clubs, don’t we? Yes, we do. Or we did.

That party also liked workingmen’s clubs (which are being driven to the wall because they cannot even designate one room for smoking, and which Harriet Harman wants to make illegal anyway), and for the same reasons.

Current behaviour would no more be acceptable in either than in the other.

Roy Hattersley quite often appears on television wearing his Garrick tie. Quite right, too.