It is a hugely old-fashioned brick of a book, written (and priced) for a baby boomer generation who – like babies, perhaps – quite enjoy being told the same story for the umpteenth time.
And as a teenager, my brothers were hugely into Old Trafford, which" – he places the words delicately – "I wasn't".
He was the profession's equivalent of Dame Maggie Smith in Downton Abbey, a hugely entertaining old monster.
But time and experience have seasoned him, and his new show, "An Intimate Evening with Sam Harris," is a hugely entertaining old-fashioned star turn.
He says he has changed hugely since the old days, and gives me an example.
The excess will almost all be in the developing world where the young hugely outnumber the old.
Peter's writing and oratorical skills have come on hugely since my old boss Richard Stott first hired him as a Sunday People columnist.
It states: "The iniquity of the VAT system, whereby a new-build in a field on the edge of town is publicly-subsidised by being excused VAT, while the repair of an existing building is burdened with the full 20%, is a formal UK-wide encouragement that squanders our resources, by hugely disadvantaging the old buildings and existing town centres at the heart of our communities".
"Mission: Impossible" continues to be a highly lucrative franchise, so if a fifth one all comes off smoothly for next year, he'll be back to his old hugely popular self (the last one, in 2011, did nearly $700 million worldwide, and was the most highly lucrative of the bunch, pre-inflation).
But ministers immediately rejected any suggestion that the triple lock, hugely popular among older voters, should be abandoned.
