Tuesday’s edition of Today – to which I have returned after finding Wogan’s repeated references to his coming retirement tiresome in the extreme – offered much to irritate, as reporter after reporter talked of the Government’s “selling off” of banks. What’s wrong with simply ‘selling’? Then came an Oxford expert on overeating. I didn’t catch his name but I rushed to write down a horrid phrase he used. This was “obesogenic environment”. I presume this is how one spells ‘obesogenic’, not that it matters since the word exists – as I discovered online – only in the mad world of science.