Nigel

used to really high-end clients.

He presents himself as, I think, Nigel from Devil Wears Prada, Stanley Tucci.

I understand

right away who that is.

There has been no shortage of politics, no shortage of fights for Westminster, rows about flags, attacks on Lit Zero, judicial reviews, or angry posts about whatever happens to be exercised in the national reform movement that morning.

Some of Norfolk's reform councillors have even found time to head off to Nigel Farage's constituency in Clacton and to Liz Truss's CPAC in London.

Conservative Political Action Conference.

excuse me where delegates could listen to discussions on quote unquote taking on the british deep state unquote and quote fighting the lefty blob unquote meanwhile back in norfolk the potholes remain stubbornly resistant to cultural rhetoric the buses have similarly failed to respond to nigel farage and utility companies disappointingly do not appear to coordinate their roadworks any better because somebody changed the flag outside county hall That is the thing about local government, eventually you have to govern locally.

In 2006, in the 2006 film Devil Wears Prada, the imperious fashion editor Miranda Priestly, played by Meryl Streep, delivered the now famous monologue in which she berates her assistant Andy Sachs and Hathaway for being, quote, blithely unaware, unquote, of how her own cerulean blue sweater was in fact a product of high fashion embrace of the hue, quote, by the people in this room, unquote.

Twenty years on, in this year's Devil Wears Prada 2, Sax is gently discouraged from wearing anything colourful.

This is quiet luxury, Stanley Tucci's Nigel Kipling explains while assembling a wardrobe of greys and taupes.

That, he adds, gesturing at the pink garment in her hands, is like a screaming guitar solo.