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Do you shout back at the television?

Hazel, Lucy or Dilly trips onto the Sky News stage, gestures at the weather map and begins to eulogise about ‘spits and spots of rain and depressions cartwheeling into northern parts’. All our eyes quit the screen and focus on my brother. We chortle with delight as he thunders at the inanity of of her language. Meteorology was part of his degree and he can’t bear to have it dumbed down so.

He finds like minds in a number of publications. Take Ross Clark’s How to Label a Goat (ISBN 1-897-59795-9 – Harriman House Publishing) or any of John Humphrys’ best sellers, and you can enjoy a vicarious rant.

‘Enjoy’ is the word. Some rants are downright funny. Here’s just one Ross Clark rant about the lunacy of British red tape, ‘Farmers and horse-owners have been told that they may no longer keep a pile of dung weighing more than five tonnes unless they first apply for a licence costing between

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