when we read an article about adolf hitler is it because we are interested in his role in the second world war or is it because we want to know more about what kind of trousers he wore what would you think of an encyclopaedia article about hitler that didn't mention his role in world war two or perhaps maybe mentioned it in passing that he happened to be the fuhrer of germany during world war two but that this bore no relevance on his favorite breakfast likewise with herbert dingle who are these people that keep thinking that we should be concentrating on dingle's family life what is driving them do they fear that references to the very thing that made dingle famous will assist to some minor degree in making the pendulum swing back again