By James Price Barristers’ wigs are the latest front in the war on the eccentricity and traditions that make this country unique, says James Price “What do ties matter, Jeeves, at a time like this?” asks Bertie Wooster during one of his many misadventures. Jeeves, as omniscient and fundamentally right about everything as ever, replies, quite correctly: “There is no time, sir, at which ties do not matter”. In this age where even the humble necktie is coming to be seen as an anachronism, it is perhaps no surprise that the other flashes of personality, colour and eccentricity that used to make ou…