I often wonder if Cesar would have quite so many followers - or at least would they be quite so rabid and unwilling to consider even the remotest possibility that Cesar's advice is based on flawed research - if he wasn't quite so photogenic and charismatic.

I am convinced that if he were female and looked like Mo Mowlam, at least half of the females who quote him so adoringly wouldn't be quite so vociferous in their defence of their hero...