I'll be honest, I've been wondering why this hasn't come up more. I remember it being reported in the Guardian and I'm not sure, perhaps it was disproved, but it always seemed to me to be rather more serious in terms of voiding any "youthful high jinks" defence.

Buxton's great. Very underrated.

And they mustn't use it as an excuse to bugger around with the format.

I'm open to the idea this is justified, but I'm afraid I'm not sure I'm willing to accept it at face value without being told what it is that he's supposed to have said.

There's also - again, possibly an exclusively British context - a cohort of younger left-wingers who absolutely hate the housing status quo but are also wedded to the idea that easy home ownership is a machine for mass producing centre-right voters.

In a British context - and we have rather different mores so this may be misleading - people tend to get angry because a) muh environment and b) muh climate change but also perhaps mostly c) it will involve people making money building and providing stuff.

"offset lithograph on Japon"

*that sort of thing = nostril flare and looks like he might be a bit whiffy