>>>>Pinter wasn’t fit to clean out Tom Stoppard’s toilet bowl.

It’s Chistmas, you mentioned Tom Stoppard, and we’re discussion Pinter’s deification in the newspaper, by “with it”, “progressive” journalists. So:

“Perhaps I’ll get him a reporter’s doll for Christmas. Wind it up and he gets it wrong.” — Ruth, in Tom Stoppard’s “Night and Days”.