The BBC have been running and re-running various shows about or with the late Sir John Betjeman, all of which remind that he was rather more kop as a TV presenter than a poet. Entertaining though he was about posh gels in tennis gear and the charm of English churches, he was also incapable of profundity or even noticing much. Still, it would be interesting to have him around today. What, I wonder, would he have made of the new album by the Arctic Monkeys or the road-holding ability of the Citroen Xantia? Would he have tried dogging? Alas, we shall never know.