My distinguished colleague John Graham, Senior Contributing Editor to Tatler magazine and a former US Editor of the Financial Times as well as a mean man with a deck of cards, has recently contacted me to discuss various points in the Worldview section of my website — I’ll be posting John’s points in a week or two, and discussing his qualifications and nuances. Other users are invited to do the same. Especially if you disagree with the way I see things — and I’m sure there will be much disagreement. “Only idiots don’t change their minds,” as Olivier Humbrecht once told me; maybe we can change each other’s minds. And if not, we will

"do as adversaries do in law,
Strive mightily but eat and drink as friends."
(Taming of the Shrew II, i, lines 275-6)

I hope.