The largest bastions of tabloid values and tin-eared conservatism are vulnerable.
Bastions of traditional values such as the Telegraph have hailed the tournament as "the purest distillation of the Olympic spirit - the pursuit of sport for sport's sake".
"For someone who aspires to be a bastion of moral values, it doesn't seem like a great precedent.
It was falsely reported that the killers had been fans and were influenced by his music, making Manson a scapegoat and a bastion of toxic values.
In a state long regarded as a bastion of family-values morality, more than 4,000 people signed petitions supporting his prosecution.
Why, that would be The Wall Street Journal, a bastion of conservative values on its editorial pages and hardly a suspect when it comes to lefty news coverage.
The idea that today's Catholic church – hostile to abortion and contraception, antipathetic to homosexuality and dismissive of the idea of women priests – might be a bastion of enlightened values is one many Britons will find hard to accept.
Putin seems to have discovered a kind of ideology that holds up Russia as a bastion of conservative values in the face of the degenerate West, and Ernst may not have the purity or fanaticism that these new times require.
The 160th Boat Race, that last bastion of Corinthian values or a complete sporting irrelevance depending on your point of view, has been won by Oxford University by 11 lengths, the biggest margin of victory since 1973.
The nation it depicts isn't a melting pot or a bastion of family values but a noxious cauldron of clashing agendas, where even under one roof people can only pretend to get along.
