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Last year, after his wife and writing partner, Polly Samson, tweeted that Waters was a “Putin apologist and a lying, thieving, hypocritical, tax-avoiding, lip-synching, misogynistic, sick-with-envy megalomaniac,” Gilmour wrote in a follow-up post, “Every word demonstrably true.”

Polly said, “Why don’t you try someone else? Maybe try Romany singing it.”

Since the early 1990s, Gilmour’s frequent lyrical collaborator has been wife Polly Sampson, whose sensitivity and topicality often reveals a heart-rending reality that’s never heavy-handed.

Polly Neate, chief executive of homelessness charity Shelter, said a lack of social housing meant that "as rents continue to skyrocket", the freeze on housing benefits meant low-income families in the private sector were at risk of losing their homes.

To investigators at the scene of Polly Klaas’ abduction in early October 1993, the story strained belief.