Strange

The Wrong Brother, mouthing loser's platitudes on the box, seems to have acquired a shocking aura of irrelevance. He looks like a man accidentally over-promoted, perhaps through some administrative error, who then, for a little while, managed almost to convince people that he had a reasonable claim to their confidence but whom, though he was unaware of it, events bypassed suddenly, so that in an instant he completely lost his locus standii and what meagre influence he had and found that his opinions no longer mattered to anyone, not even his former allies.