Between 70 and 75% of those who end up in Her Majesty's prisons are either completely illiterate and innumerate or, if they are not quite that, are wholly without qualifications.
But the films that confirmed the existence of something quite distinctive and wholly individual were Truffaut's third film, the lyrical, nostalgic, necrophilic Jules et Jim (1961), and Godard's harsh, self-questioning, didactic fourth movie, Vivre sa vie.
All became clearer when I saw how the French had retitled the novel: it was to be called Vacances Anglaises, working on the premise, I now feel sure, that the English on their own are evidently risible, but the very concept of them on holiday by the sea must, quite clearly, be wholly hysterical (even to contemplate).
It's quite unfair to wholly criticize the young man for something like this.
In fact, they are quite the opposite: entirely predictable and wholly reliable.
In a more enlightened future, we will think it barbaric that a psychologically impaired nation was allowed to compete in a World Cup when it was quite clear it was wholly unfit to do so.
In Sacks's account, "her tone was quite sober and factual, wholly unexcited… In the evening Mrs B went round the ward, with a laughter-silencing dignity, shaking hands and saying 'Goodbye' to everyone there.
It had neat diagrams of Jacques Cousteau's underwater stations, seen in a cross-section of the ocean, with cutaway views to show the French crew in their boxers; it had maps decorated with significant icons — state seals, natural landmarks — drawn in a style not quite cartoony yet not wholly earnest.
He may argue that Messi is used, at Barcelona, to close down space, but he no longer does it with the ferocity he used to and, besides, it's one thing to follow instructions from Luis Enrique at Barcelona, quite another to buy wholly into the plan of somebody whose highest-profile jobs have been at San Lorenzo and São Paulo.
As for further "top-slicing", following John's lead, we were again quite clear: "It was wholly wrong that the 2010 licence fee settlement, which permitted the licence fee revenue to be used for new purposes, was not subject to any public or parliamentary consultation".
