"When I opened, this was a dark, dingy street with no lighting and buggered pavements," says Andrew O'Dwyer, who owns a bar and nightclub in a now-buzzing area.
Even that could be optimistic: in the European election in 2009 it won 16.5% of votes, but in the words of one UKIP source "buggered off to the pub" afterwards and slumped to 3.1% in the 2010 general election.
In a story he told, often and in several variants, Bacon's fox-hunting father had had his 14-year-old son horsewhipped when he was caught being buggered by a stable-boy.
And I believe that a grown man who allows himself to be buggered is as much of a criminal pervert as one who performs cunnilingus.
"But they've already buggered me and got what they wanted: publicity".
No wonder Sam Burgess buggered off back to Australia, his head aching with the gravity of it all.
A girl once asked her mum, 'Can I have a Cadbury's Creme Egg?' The mum said, 'No, you can't Danielle, I've already told you, darling – bird flu!'" – Tom Deacon "I once buggered a man unconscious.
Many of the adult victims spoke from behind screens, detailing incidents from when they were as young as eight, of being forced to perform oral sex with Beck or of being buggered or raped by him.
But the prosecution asked questions such as, 'Were you aware that children were being dragged to King's house and buggered within an inch of their lives?' I wasn't able to stand up and say, 'No.
Skidelsky, in his account of this phase of Keynes's life, may not discount sufficiently for Bloomsbury hyperbole in sexual matters: when the gossip was that Keynes had "buggered" someone at a party, it generally meant that an embrace or a kiss was attempted.
Only male homosexuality is excluded — except for one crude cartoon joke in which an artist, as he grasps the hand of a naked woman labelled "Glory," is buggered by a critic.
