Last week the miserable ghost of Malcolm Turnbull put in an apparition at the Friends of Wolper Jewish Hospital. Presumably suffering from an attack of relevance deprivation syndrome, Turnbull offered Prime Minister Scott Morrison some advice about ‘patronising insensitivity’, a subject on which he is unquestionably an expert.

Half a century earlier, Turnbull’s headmaster foresaw that his star pupil would have problems in life because he ‘makes it clear that he thinks people are perfect fools and haven’t got a brain in their head.’