overpromoted

But I feel something like an obligation to hedge — even if I can’t imagine life without my kids, even if they have made me who I am, the other narrative is so overpromoted, especially to women, that I feel a duty to throw a pebble on the other side of the scale.

Deprived of that income, the quality of player the club was able to attract steadily declined until the first team was staffed entirely by overpromoted hopefuls and underpowered journeymen.

Trump is just clever enough to pretend this never happened, which is always a neat way of insulting an overpromoted journalist.

Or is it possible that our educational institutions may have gone a bit too far in the past 20 years and overpromoted girls’ interests at the expense of boys’?

Oh wait – this overpromoted journalist whose style philosophy is “sleeping in my car for a domestic misdemeanour”? According to what one experienced hand at the heart of government told the Spectator’s James Forsyth this week, “The only person who can stop Boris is Boris.”