Sir Patrick Moberly, who has died aged 95, was a formal, old-school diplomat whose career culminated in two of the most sensitive postings for a British ambassador: to Israel and South Africa.
As the first States meeting with the new P&R president gets under way, Matt Fallaize considers how Deputy Lyndon Trott’s return to the top job came about and what we can expect from him in the role.
Sir Graham Bright, who has died aged 81, was a self-made businessman who was Conservative MP for Luton East and then Luton South for 18 years and PPS to John Major for the first four years of his premiership.
They are the interviews that send us to sleep, the post-match press conferences in which sportspeople display the skills they have learnt in media training. The skill is to say nothing, to utter little but hard-worn clichés, to pay the lip service of complimenting the hard work of the opposing team, to escape the whole experience and not have to face a dressing down from their manager/agent/family/other-half because they offered up some embarrassing gaffe. All they and their team want is a good