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Italy stroppily accuses the EU of doing too little.

- Bams, said Juice Terry stroppily.

A few months ago, the Old Harrovian Benedict Cumberbatch stroppily revealed that he was thinking of moving to America because of "all the posh-bashing that goes on."

Among his associates were Ms Hall, playing a stroppily idealistic political activist, and Cumberbatch playing a pompous public-school quiz captain – characters quite different from their roles in Parade's End.

The former First Secretary suggested stroppily to Total Politics magazine that no invitation to strut his stuff had been forthcoming: "They had their opportunity [to ask me]," he said, "and now they can get lost."

And that was how it finished, with Quins in control up front and with Mike Brown, as stroppily endearing as ever, tidying up at the back whenever Biarritz threatened which they did less and less often.

On television, Morgan has appeared on the UK comedy music quiz show Never Mind The Buzzcocks, three times as a guest panelist (stroppily leaving early most recently, in November 2013) and once as a presenter.