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Kumar was an MP more likely to be found in the Commons library than the Stranger's Bar and his failure to be clubbable probably counted against him when it came to securing promotion.

Just as Trump bulldozes presidential norms, not least the one requiring him to attend the correspondents dinner, so Wolf bulldozed the norms of this hitherto clubbable gala.

Over the course of four series, this blurring of reality has coloured how people respond to them in real life: seeing them as the clubbable Brydon and the prickly Coogan.

Carole keeps Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons” as her ringtone because she wants to appear classy, and repeats a morning mantra: “I am highly presentable, likable, clubbable, relatable, promotable and successful.”

The title is appropriate: this is history with the emphasis on story, clubbable rather than scholarly but not overly so.