Moreover, there was no question in the early 1980s that Labour was against these things, which made them easier to dramatise.

ECONOMIST: John Major

Deronda is an easier book to dramatise than Zhivago and it shows.

BBC: Doctor Zhivago and Daniel Deronda: Your views

The second question is how far to dramatise the vote.

ECONOMIST: Six weeks left, and a mountain for the yes campaign to climb

This is perhaps the real contrast between Mr Cameron and David Davis, who left the shadow cabinet last month to dramatise his disgust with Labour's erosion of civil liberties.

ECONOMIST: David Cameron