I've been too busy to post much this week, so apologies that this is a little bit after the event, but on Sunday night I went to hear Mike Leigh at Jewish Book Week. Some - most, if I'm honest - of the questions from the floor were pretty awful (most people seemed to be obsessed about his modus operandi, and repeatedly asked him about it when he had made clear at the outset that he would say anything more than he had already done).

But my, what a rude man! One audience member asked about the large number of uses of the f-word in Leigh's play, Two Thousand Years. It was not a remotely aggressive question; the questioner merely said that he did not think the f-word was used so freely in a typical NW London jewish house.

Leigh's reply? 'Fuck you'. (And it did not seem as if Leigh was maing a joke, however badly).

His response to others who dared to question any aspect of his work or beliefs was similarly dismissive.

I remain a big fan, but I will regard Leigh the man in a very different light from now on.