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He stress-tests our icky, grubby pity for Matthew and, beyond that, the flimsiness of modern fame culture and its fake-it-till-you-make-it inspirational platitudes.

A female police officer who volunteered to run in plain clothes to catch catcallers has said their behaviour "makes me feel really sort of icky".

"Intimacy is made simple for you, it's made fun in the short term, but the more you play, the more you feel kind of icky."

But waiting for a less icky opportunity means ceding the ground to people who want to make the structural problems much worse.

But a somewhat unexpected way that this impacted me was that it felt very icky.