Dear Philippa,

 

The Daily Telegraph reports today that Andrew Marr, speaking at the Cheltenham Literary Festival, denounced bloggers as “socially inadequate, pimpled and single, slightly seedy, bald, cauliflower-nosed loners sitting in their mothers’ basements and ranting”. A Johnsonian insult if ever I read one. Coming from someone with raw-boned features and enormous, protruding ears it’s a daring line to take – not noted for his physical beauty, he is likely to come in for some stick in the blogosphere, with the focus I expect on his dreadful halitosis and stinking armpits as well as his absurd ears.

 

What’s a cauliflower nose?

 

Howard