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Mr Frazier is an inventive writer but a conventional thinker; his first-rate prose keeps stumbling over his second-hand ideas.

So the real question is not over the tenets of their political religion, but why some Tories are so keen to find one.Brains v ballsAsked about the purpose of ideologies, some politicians cite the importance of impressing journalists, those suggestible traders in second-hand ideas.

It is all very cunningly done and, in the case of poor Mr Corbyn, an absolutely vintage Mart performance, in which the Labour leader, were he to have read The Sunday Times, would have found himself sneered at for being under-educated, full of second-hand ideas, inflexible, dull-witted and – an accusation which has wrecked many a promising career – "humourless".

I got a first-hand idea last weekend in Torbay when I visited Doorstep Arts, an initiative created by three impressive and energetic women – Jade Campbell, Meghan Searle and Erin Walcon – as part of the Collaborative Touring Network.

They tweet self-styled second-hand outfit ideas, events and inspiration.

"We want to hear first-hand the ideas and concerns of the residents," she said.

Going to a second hand sports store is a good idea to save money.

Merce Cunningham, "Second Hand".

A classic? First hand or second hand?

# Sweeping Second Hand.

Avoid second hand smoke.

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