Time changes everything

The Twitterati have laid into Rod Liddle over his featurette on This Week on BBC1 last night. "Subo", "Gordon Brown in a BoJo wig" and "the albino from The Princess Bride" were some of the kinder comments about his hospital-bed appearance. Rod's self-image used to be, I think, somewhere between Jean Paul Belmondo and Tony Cascarino. Last night a new role model emerged.