“In the event, Jeremy Corbyn’s reshuffle was less a night of the long knives than a day of misplaced cutlery.”

The opening paragraph to Matthew d’Ancona’s tedious and overblown article in today’s Standard.

In the event, d’Ancona’s opening ‘zinger’ seems to be less satire than a sort of poorly-judged Garry Bushell* one-liner that, when thought about, doesn’t really work.

Who has ‘a day of misplaced cutlery’? Why is that insulting? What does any of this mean?

(*I may have spelt Bushell’s name wrong here. I was informed by my mobile phone that it ‘doesn’t recognise Garry Bushell’. My mobile phone should be eternally thankful.)