Another week, another innovation, as the Bar continues to modernise itself with all the conviction of a middle-aged divorcee squeezing into her daughter’s size-zero Top Shop crop-top.

The venerable body last week (10 April) launched its brand spanking new website in a move that does all sorts of exciting things to improve diversity and widen access to the Bar – as conclusively demonstrated by the picture on the homepage of a youngish black guy looking at his watch (because the law moves so fast, or something) instead of a middle-aged white bloke in a bowler hat.