P'raps I'm just an old-fashioned fuddy duddy ... but I often wonder what staid old John Reith, founding Chairman of the BBC, would make of modern male TV game/chat show presenters ... many of whom sport a smart (and doubtless expensive) enough suit - yet completely ruin the whole effect because they eschew wearing a tie to go along with it - and almost invariably appear in a collarless shirt unbuttoned practically down to the midriff - Simon Cowell, of course, being the prime example. ! Once upon a time a man would scarcely be seen leaving his house without a tie being worn.

Rant over ... I think, anyway.