Ms Krishnan considers herself "thick skinned, used to addressing difficult questions and dealing with abuse", but this, she says, was "sexual harassment".
Broadbent is a weather freak who points out that both the 1945 and 1961 Bordeaux vintage were subjected to frosts and heavy rains, respectively, thereby reducing crops to small, thickskinned grapes producing deeply colored, concentrated and tannic vintages.
The conventional wisdom holds that politicians must be packaged as feeling family types, rather than thick-skinned, sharp-elbowed machines dedicated to self-advancement.