'Oh my': Why RDR reminds Mark Lisle of Hardy Har Har

As we navigate the road to the post-RDR world, the very onomatopoeic mention of RDR still, as it has done for the last few years, conjures up the vision in my mind’s eye (without trying; a bit like Reggie Perrin’s hippopotamus) of the old cartoon character Hardy Har Har. For those unfamiliar with the work of Hanna Barbera, Hardy was a hyena, the side-kick of the loquacious Lippy the Lion. Lippy was a lion on the make, always cutting corners trying to come up with some get-rich-quick scheme. Perhaps not so much a recidivist than a misguided idealist with a different perspective to the ...