Does ‘coming out’ now wipe away all sins?

Disgraced football referee David Coote is the latest public figure to try the ' Phillip Schofield defence' He revealed that he is gay, and kept it secret in the macho world’ of football for fear of being abused.

He said it was this sense of double being’ that helped to steer him towards these behaviours.

This has not knocked Brigstocke off the rails of his pretend-left, upper-middle-class, good person’ opinions.

His interview in the i is a miserable exercise in self-exoneration, blame shifting and judging other men for their toxic masculinity’.