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In the same interview, he described males who transition to female as “mutilated” men, and Caitlyn Jenner in particular as “a publicity-seeking ratbag.”

The ratbag attitude runs deep.

Under very different circumstances, two women return to the coastal resort where they grew up, 17 years on from accusations that they murdered their duplicitous ratbag schoolteacher.

I sat in a suite at the Savoy hotel, in privilege, resenting the woeful ratbag I once was, who, for all his problems, had drugs.

Then came divorce from Uma Thurman, amid rumours of an affair with the couple's nanny, and vilification by the tabloids as Public Ratbag No 1.