David Cameron, who once described Ukip as mostly "a bunch of fruitcakes and loonies and closet racists" also acknowledged that Ukip might now deny him victory.
Anybody who's got a closet can make a theatre out of it.
Now the story of Apfel's style, having travelled from a personal closet to a museum, and from there to the front row and the big screen, is about to make the transition to the shopfloor.
Being a closet Clojurian, one of the first projects I looked at was Funktown, a Python port of Clojure's data structures.
Of course the show is a comedy, so it doesn't bother with the typically gloomy out-of-the-closet story standards like self-loathing or familial rejection (Amy has a southern conservative mother and a wicked step-sister who believes in salvation, but they are only really portrayed as irritants, and she seems to enjoy provoking them).
I find it utterly bizarre that a movie called "Pride" is being pushed back into the closet in 2015.
In 1995, Schlesinger made a good interviewee in the definitive documentary about gay cinema, The Celluloid Closet.
And when Elton John married, eyebrows were raised as closet doors seemed to slam firmly shut.
But Pope Francis is making up for lost time: denouncing capitalism and the "tyranny" of the market, condemning inequality as the "root of social evil", rejecting Islamophobia and western warmaking – and even claiming communists are closet Christians who "have stolen our flag".
Ryan Welch was shot in the face by a.40-calibre Smith & Wesson pistol found in a closet in the master bathroom of his home next to a BB gun and a machete, the Chronicle reported.
With Labour's selection process now officially underway, Sadiq Khan has burst from the campaign closet and been made second favourite by the bookies to take over at City Hall in a year's time.
