“Is thee going in or staying out love?” “I’m not sure myself yet,” says I—surprised to be asked to make a decision so early on in the day. “Well, no loitering here love, let thee make thy mind up.” All I wanted to do was hover undecidedly at the back of the vast ornate lecture hall in Leeds Town Hall. I was only mildly interested in the topic about to be addressed and I needed thirty seconds or so to decide if the speaker had that certain ephemeral quality that makes the talk worth listening to. However, the calendar …