Badly-dressed toffs abound for Betjeman

Britain - or is it just the BBC? - can’t get enough of John Betjeman.

Going by this week’s programming, the poet’s most trite, most queasily nostalgic verse still makes his compatriots long for ‘‘sand in the sandwiches/wasps in the tea’’ seaside holidays.

One hundred years after his birth - 22 after his death - Betjeman has a celebrity chef cooking a fish pie in his honour and Prince Charles dissolving into royal ...