The Grauniad’s giveaway “great lyricists” booklet today features the words of Alex Turner of the Arctic Monkeys; not exactly Dylan, but nowadays the ability to craft a half-way decent rhyming couplet counts for a lot. I’m reminded of Lawrence Miles’s complaint about Stephen Moffat being lauded as a genius Dr Who scriptwriter, when what actually makes him stand out from the pack is just a sort of baseline competence - a distinct set of skills not everybody has, but anybody writing TV scripts ought to have as a bare minimum.

I liked this couplet in “Red Light Indicates Doors Are Secured”: “But this lad at the side drinking a Smirnoff Ice / Came and paid for her Tropical Reef”. All the same, it’s basically music hall double entendre isn’t it? Anyone in the entertainment business ought to be able to knock that sort of stuff out without breaking a sweat.