[after the acquittal of Jeremy Thorpe on a charge of conspiracy to murder in 1979]: How could it have occurred to any of us for a moment that Thorpe was anything but innocent? Speaking for myself, I think it may have been something to do with the double-breasted waistcoats he wears. At my school, prefects were allowed to wear these absurd garments as a badge of office. So many of them were hypocrites, sodomites and criminal psychopaths that I understandably jumped to the conclusion that Jeremy Thorpe might just possibly be one, too.