Screw the Ming vase, Keir. If you can’t enjoy 20-point leads — and that’s on a bad day — then you have no business being in politics. We get it, power is the point (a concept that must be patiently re-explained to Labour Party members every general election defeat). Yes, you remember 1951, 1970 and 1992. But cheer up.
Not least because, in case you haven’t noticed, this is your imperial phase. Think Led Zeppelin in the early-Seventies, Oasis in the mid-Nineties or Taylor Swift from the mid-2010s to present (though the jury is still out on The Tortured Poets Department).
