I think right about now we have to beware of marketed Malcolms and Martins. Real people do real things.
I come from a coal-mining, working-class background. My father was a coal miner.
It's an ancient idea that the leader of a democracy should not be the cleverest but the most average. That's an arguable point, but the world has decided otherwise - except in America, where it still divides the country right down the middle.

