Down With the “Positive Male Role Model”

An out-of-work football manager has dropped a fresh batch of stone tablets and the House of Commons has found a workaround for Netflix’s password-sharing restrictions, so, under the twin waves of Adolescence and Sir Gareth Southgate, we have enthusiastically recommenced our national hunt for that promising superman: “the positive male role model”. How long have we been chasing that hopeful silhouette now? Long enough by now to realise, I think, that he’s not just elusive – he’s a chimera.