Gay discrimination case is no cakewalk

DID you know that Bert and Ernie were a couple? It’s amazing what can be learnt on a fair to middling July week in the throes of the silly season.

For one particular middle-aged generation, Bert and Ernie loomed large in their childhoods. The pair were staple characters in Sesame Street, the great children’s television series of the 1970s.

They were an odd couple for kids, Ernie tall and geeky, Bert short and cheeky. They were funny guys, whose banter included the odd bit of education, which made the programme a winner across the developed world.