My colleague and good friend Tom Catan grew up in Mexico, the US and Britain, attended a state school in England, graduated from a university that wasn't Oxford or Cambridge and, as a journalist, has lived and worked in countries including Argentina, the US and the UK.

I, on the other hand, was born and bred in Britain, attended a private school in Britain, graduated from Cambridge University and, as a journalist, have lived and worked in countries including Britain, Britain and Britain.