Madam,

So.

Conor won’t be launching that book.

Now we learn he never read it.

So when the author described evolution as “a fantasy of farraginous, farcical, fatuous, feculent, facile facetiousness.”

Did he perhaps conclude it was about the bank guarantee?

After all he need only look around the cabinet table to see evidence we are descended from apes.

Here’s hoping  this letter will ‘evolve’ into a lengthy, unfunny correspondence among a few retired teachers and bored civil servants.

Yours, etc.

PS Could Martyn Turner knock up something using the illustration above with Cowen et al?