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Mr Wright said the defendant had cultivated a publicly-expressed disapproval of female commentators in what he sees as the male preserve of football.

In recent years, Lego has cultivated a devoted base of adult fans, who might not have been able to afford the pricey Danish kits as kids but now come armed with fervor and disposable income.

He’s packed higher and lower courts with former clerks and mentees whom he’s cultivated at his Bible study, prayer breakfasts and similar events.

Andrew also cultivated his own independent sources of funding since leaving public life, including business connections with China, the Gulf States and a recently curtailed project with a Dutch start-up company.

But the biographer also makes clear that Roth cultivated reticence with the same zeal with which he flaunted candor.