The Extremist Mainstream8th October 2013

Three decades ago I came across an original Punch cartoon, and bought it. Each publication carried a pen and ink drawing, and the next edition carried the winning reader’s caption. Whilst tastes and appropriateness change, the essence is that 3 patients had escaped from the asylum, but the guards had returned with 13. The lesson is that amongst those of us that claim to be sane many of us are many behaving oddly indeed. Just as the UK’s eccentric Party Political Conference season drew to