“... furore has surrounded her, beginning with the ‘Testimony against Gertrude Stein’ that Eugene Jolas put together as a special supplement to the February 1935 issue of transition, including angry contributions from Matisse, Braque, Tristan Tzara and others. ‘These documents invalidate the claim of the Toklas-Stein memorial that Miss Stein was in ...”

“... and anti-landmine campaigner Heather Mills, perhaps; a shade less probably, the wedding in St Eugene’s Cathedral, Londonderry, of Gráinne, daughter of Northern Ireland’s Education Minister Martin McGuinness (not yet knighted for his varied public services, but it’s early days), and Sean ‘Harpie’ Hargan, the Derry football hero. The TV wasn’t ...”