Love your grandad or you may end up with £50 instead of £500,000 you were expecting, says Kelvin MacKenzie

He was also upset by the lack of contact when a great grand-daughter married. As judge James Brightwell said; ‘’ He complained he was not even sent a piece of wedding cake.’’

What was fantastic, and actually made me laugh, was that when the will was read it descended into angry shouting as each of the grandchildren was handed the £50 in an envelope. Would have made a great scene for a television series.

And that’s what I have always wanted to do. The show would be called Where There’s a Will There’s a War.

I’ve been hawking the idea around various production houses for years but there’s always a bloke called Alwyn or a woman called Dotty who doesn’t fancy it.

The reality is that with houses going up in price and grandchildren becoming more idle there will be more will battles ahead.

In this case Fred, whose main asset was his £450,000 maisonette in Ealing, West London, was so irritated at the way he was being treated he left all his money to his two surviving children as his third, the father of the grandchildren, had died.

The grandchildren challenged the will but the judge said it was ‘’entirely rational’’ for a grandfather to have felt disappointed because of the ‘’very limited contact’’ with him in his final years.

This case should be a warning to all offspring. There’s no point turning up like a head waiter at the solicitor’s office hoping for a big payout if you hadn’t shown the slightest interest in the old boy/girl over the years.

In my family me and my brothers one day received a handwritten note from my father , a local paper editor, saying he just wanted us to know that we weren’t going to get any of his money as he was leaving all to his second wife.

I was quite relaxed about the decision because a) I didn’t think he had any money and b) What he did with it was entirely his own affair. My brothers did not take the same view and remained irritated to this day.

Way the world is right now I’m quite flattered to be a dinosaur

I was chatting last night to Richard Tice, the engaging leader of the Reform party which is currently doing so well that come the General Election may actually be neck and neck with the Rishi.

At 20% that last IPSOS poll was absolute disaster for the Tories. I congratulated Richard on his number and told him that I was a Conservative.

‘’Ah,’’ he said. ‘’A dinosaur.’’

Is that true? Is it possible that being a Tory is now considered old-fashioned. Doesn’t really stand for anything. In fact no longer the beating heart of people who want to get on and if they don’t, want their families to get on.

My sense is that the voters don’t dislike Rishi, they admire his intellect and his appetite for hard work but don’t believe he will take the really tough decisions.

For instance, would he (and Farage or Tice for that matter) actually turn back the Channel migrants? If the Tories or Labour were the elected government in Israel would they have the belief to literally wipe Hamas off the face of earth and take the criticism for the collateral deaths? I doubt it.

People forget Israel is fighting for its very existence. Starmer is a lawyer for God’s sake. The only thing he would fight for is his next brief from a trade union.

Had Russia invaded the UK would we have fought with the courage and tenacity of the outgunned and outmanned Ukrainians? Or would have an influencer, fresh from the Brit awards, organised a demonstration outside a nightclub urging the young not to fight.

I suspect some of the young would not fight unless they could do it from home. Harsh? A colleague has just let go a young kid (he had been unemployed for some time) because the boy said he wouldn’t work Fridays as he was taking driving lessons and they were ‘’difficult to come by’’. True.

With the way the world is right now I’m quite flattered to be a dinosaur. They are still being dug up millions of years later. That won’t be true of influencers.

Luke Littler is my hero

My new hero is Luke Littler, who at 17 who, through his astonishing skill with the arrows, has attracted an entirely new audience to the ‘’sport’’.

Littler comes from Warrington in Cheshire and was asked in a Times magazine article if he knew that Chris Evans, the DJ, had come from there.

He had no idea who Chris Evans was . He went even further up in my estimation.