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Hatpin through the Brain

Jonathan Meades: Closing Time for the Firm, 9 June 2022

The Palace Papers 
by Tina Brown.
Century, 571 pp., £20, April, 978 1 5291 2470 5
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... of entering the lists she does not yet appear to be regarded as a mistake of the calibre of Sarah Ferguson and Diana Spencer.The latter prompts Tina Brown to remark: ‘What a pity that the queen, so gifted at reading the bloodlines of horses, misread so profoundly the Spencers’ suitability to join with royal stock. Yes, in terms of pedigree, they were ...

Dance in the Rain

Dani Garavelli: Sturgeon comes out swinging, 11 September 2025

Frankly 
by Nicola Sturgeon.
Macmillan, 464 pp., £28, August, 978 1 0350 4021 6
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... was similar to that in England); not her feud with her mentor and predecessor as party leader, Alex Salmond; not even Operation Branchform, the fraud investigation that led to a raid on her house and her husband – Peter Murrell, then the SNP chief executive – being charged with embezzlement of more than £660,000 donated to the party.Sturgeon believes ...

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