But these boundaries have been blurred at least since 1929, when Ramsay Macdonald put George Steward in Downing Street with orders to cultivate selected journalists and so counter the bias of the Tory press barons.
Her ballet is based on George MacDonald's beautifully told 1872 tale about Irene, a steadfast princess who encounters the ghost of her loving great-great-grandmother (also named Irene) and, accompanied by her rustic friend Curdie, gets entangled with a population of fearsome goblins.