● SOME WORDS WE do not wish to hear in the coming year: nuanced, pitch-perfect, multi-layered, achingly beautiful, richly-textured, life-affirming. And if anybody is held to be at the top of their game, or the height of their powers, then bundle the offender into the stocks, and buy a tub of rotting tomatoes.
Which is not to say there is no place for genuine nuance, as in trying to understand the flaws of those most high. It is to the credit of Matthew Parris that the programme he moderates
