The year 1998 was a very different time: a strange new worldwide web concept called Google was founded, and a footballer married to a Spice Girl caused shockwaves by wearing a sarong on holiday.

In today's #woke era, where in some circles gender is as fluid as melted butter, it seems absurd that there would be an outcry about David Beckham wearing a fairly innocuous beach purchase in the south of France.

The Telegraph London