Molesworth as role model

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Asked to chose his favourite literary character as an inspiration for law, the JC — after a wistful look at A. P. Herbert’s curmudgeonly litigant Albert Haddock — chose of course Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle’s immortal, heroic nigel molesworth. Why?

Nigel molesworth the curse of st custards

Understands the importance of form and automation of tiresome and unnecessary tasks - take for example the patented molesworth self-adjusting thank you letter: https://jollycontrarian.com/index.php?title=Molesworth_self-adjusting_thank-you_letter

Doesn't stand on form or ceremony in how he expresses himself. Wantonly eschews convention and through imaginative subversion of the idiom has instead generated his own idiom which — as any fule kno — survives to this day in respectful publications like Private Eye and the (cough) Jolly Contrarian.

He has a unique way of looking at the world. He understands the potential for subverting the natural order of things for better effect.

He’s one of the troops, a rank and filer, at the mercy of masters, matron, the skool dog, sossages and GURLS chiz chiz. But he believes in himself, what he stands for, and realises it takes grit and determination not 5o mention knowledge of How To Be Topp.