It’s shock and awe as Clint and co shoot from the hip

GO ahead hunk — make my wedding day! Will that be among the marriage vows of same-sex couples now that none other than Clint “Dirty Harry” Eastwood has come out for gay equality?

Having your own prejudices pricked by the unlikely announcements of those you’ve already written-off as stereotypes is always an intriguing event.

Mr Eastwood, along with a former head of MI5 and an EU bigwig, have all provided such a service in recent days on subjects as diverse as same-sex weddings, drugs, and how beastly the Germans are behaving over the euro crisis.