Well, Symposia must be the oldest blogger out there and probably the only one who has just read Flora Fraser's dense Princesses about the six daughters of crazed George III, a thoroughly ghastly human being. The book is of the card catalogue school of writing, a dizzying array of chronological facts and borrrrrrrrrrring quotes from letters.

A propos of ghastly people Baker and Meese praise John Bolton today which is shocking. We were on the receiving end of an abusive boss and had utterly no defense because he was powerful. Bolton is a salaud and should get a job at McDonald's. Period.