CHRIS HEWETTGUEST COLUMNIST

Younger readers will find this hard to believe, but the art historian Kenneth Clark knew so much about so many things that Civilisation, his incomparable television masterpiece, lasted even longer than a South Africa-Lions Test match.Happily, the 13-part narrative unfolded at twice the speed of events in Cape Town, perhaps because he was discussing great paintings rather than watching paint dry.A few words from the “Great Thaw” episode spring to mind as the new Premiership season heaves into view.“Where some way of thought or human ...