Faced with a choice of films this week I was surprised by a friend’s flat rejection of Sacha Baron-Cohen’s Bruno. He wasn’t interested in snobs laughing at ordinary peoples’ good manners.

He hadn’t seen Toby Young’s review in the Spectator, but his suspicion were supported by it.   "Funny as Bruno undoubtedly is, Baron-Cohen’s film is fundamentally dishonest" – makes it not a must see for me.

Curiously I have yet to hear the view of any friend who has seen it.