Excuse His French

 While walking this morning I listened to an Unherd podcast devoted to Iain McGilchrist, whose book The Master and the Emissary I am making rather heavy weather of - if I'm honest I listened in the hope that I might be able to glean the essence of the argument after an hour and save myself the trouble of the actual reading; but, no.

Anyway, as I sometimes think I spend too many of my waking hours trying to unsubscribe from mailing lists, I was amused by a reference McGilchrist made to this story - which, be warned, contains bad language