It has become the tradition here at Hooting Yard to herald the new year with a 2010 quotation from Peter Hitchens. This year, his magnificent words appear over at The Dabbler, which has kindly added a puff for my book Mr Key’s Shorter Potted Brief, Brief Lives. Alas, this important work of reference did not, as I hoped, become a hugely successful pre-Christmas bestseller, so I shall probably be reduced to buttonholing strangers in the streets and imploring them to buy a copy, as I weep and dribble.