Bank Holiday weekend. Weather forecast wonderful ( in Cambridge anyway ). And how will we be spending it? Revising for school exams. The Circle of Life.
P.S. Talking about the Wheel coming full circle my latest book recommendation, especially for Scottish clients, is a biography: "Rosebery, Statesman in Turmoil" by Leo McKinstry. The last Liberal prime minister, when he came to power in 1892 he was one of the wealthiest people in Britain. Sad to say the magnificent family seat is now smack in the flight path to Edinburgh Airport. It's a fascinating book though. What makes it particularly pertinent is that the central themes of Rosebery's political life were, McKinstry writes, efficiency in the public sector, devolution in Scotland and England, and Britain's role within a wider federation ( albeit an Imperial rather than a European one). All issues which have come back to the centre of political debate. Quite apart from that Rosebery was a fascinating person, in part because his character was so full of contradictions. For example, he owned three Derby winners, but was considered an awful judge of horses ( unlike yours truly who picked three out of three winners at Newmarket last Saturday, albeit that my winnings were spent repairing a tooth cracked on a cherry stone on Sunday evening - easy come, easy go ). Furthermore he was deeply religious and Calvinistic, but loved scandalous gossip and collected pornography. Pervy Victorian.
I'm riveted and, besides, it makes me look brainy on the train to Cambridge.
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