Just to remind you that the English really are different. Sir John Nott, Defense Secretary under Maggie, later Chariman of Lazards in the City. Definitely one of the Great and the Good.

Although there are a number of outrageous passages — I am told that my son had to go for therapy after reading it — there is only one incident in my life that deeply shames me. Such is my competitive nature that I bowled out my own son at a Fathers’ cricket match. His school, Summerfields, said that no father had ever done such a dreadful thing before.