NEVILLE’S ADVOCATE
Forgive me, but I’m going to begin this issue’s column with a Tommy Cooper joke. As a fine magician and hilarious comic, TC was a master of the one-liner and also did tricks that went deliberately wrong. The gag goes something like this: “I was clearing out the attic the other day when I found an old painting and an old violin. I took them to an expert and he told me, ‘What you have there is a Stradivarius and a