A man came up to me 27 years ago, threw his arms round me and kissed me!! Ok, it was my dad, but that’s really not the point here. The point really is that you were not only abused or harassed, but that it happened so long ago that no-one can remember where they were that day, let alone where you were. Only then, really can you “#me too”.

And I’m worried. Not that I was sexually harassed at any time and have repressed it, but because I’m the ultimate touchy-feely guy. I’m a hugger. Big time. Men, women, dogs, in no particular order. If I know you, I probably hug you. If I don’t, then check your personal hygiene regime; there’s a reason. Ok, I rarely ‘cop a feel’, only if he’s really gorgeous. But limbs flail, hands ‘brush’, shit happens.

I really don’t want to make light of a serious problem. Though, as ever, I reserve the right to. As I explained to my 93 (next week) year-old dad last night, who is very much of the ‘what harm is a pinch on the bum’ thought. The act itself is fine-ish. Unless it comes from a boss. Or an authority figure. And then its about power. Then it says ‘I can do this and there’s nothing you can do. I can invade your personal space whenever I choose because if you say anything it may seriously affect your career’. Then it stinks. Then it is sexual harassment, it is abuse.

Kevin Spacey is ‘allegedly’ 7 miles beyond all that. And I say ‘allegedly’ because whilst we’re all condemning him and his vile and abusive conduct, there is, as yet, not one shred of anything other than hearsay and a bunch’a #me toos. The poor Welsh MP killed himself because of someone’s allegations. He wasn’t even told what they were. Ok, there’s a part of me that says, ‘then he a. knew exactly what it was, and b. that he was totally guilty’, but part thinks that sacking ministers and dubbing Kevin Spacey out of films, when there has been no cases actually presented yet, is a bit reactionary. Its trial by media. ‘No smoke without fire’ is not valid in a court of law.

The Queen herself, on tour in Australia about 5 years ago had to suffer the then Aussie Prime Minister putting his arm round her waist and resting it on her bum. So at the Cenotaph tomorrow for Remembrance Sunday she’s wearing a special dress, across the front of which is the legend: “#One too”.

Happy Armistice Day

A xxxx