One political commentator accused the Labour left of being "petty", "childish" and "self-indulgent" with its ungracious attacks on the Iron Lady's memory.

For the California Republican who hopes to be speaker himself, it was an ungracious act, of course, but also something worse.

“I made a rude comment, and it was wrong. It was an unnecessary comment. It was ungracious to the server.”

James Corden has admitted he was "ungracious" to a restaurant server in an incident which saw him temporarily banned from New York eatery Balthazar.

Castigating himself after the fact for his “huge sense of entitlement,” Corden wrote, “I can see why and how it must have looked — ungracious, ungrateful and brattish.”