Duchess of Health

I heard Patricia Hewitt on the Today programme this morning (no links, I am not spreading her words). A more smug, self-righteous, stuck-up, pompous, patronising ass would be hard to find. It could be just the affected "posh" accent of the Australian expat that grates (surely all ex-Canberra Girl's Grammar School girls don't sound like this?). But it's not. It's the formulaic apparatchik "I'm glad you asked me that" type responses that make me want to vomit. And I'm not even going to mention her role as Director of Research for Andersen Consulting.