I'm not being defensive about Starmer's trompe-l'œils.

I was shown a photograph the other day by a friend who had been hoofing it around the Grand Tour highlights of Rome and had been to the Borromini Gallery in The Palazzao Spada. (See above).

Almost every element of it deceives, and for some reason that set my mind to thinking about Michael Rimmer. He was a creation of Peter Cook, David Frost, Graham Chapm…