“... the vaults of Barclay’s Bank in a trunk deposited in 1820 by Byron’s Cambridge friend Scrope Davies. The latter series, dated 1809-19, are more obviously entertaining. To read them after the Greek letters is to be carried back to the Byron of the delightful third volume of the letters, that real-life Liaisons Dangereuses which covered the episode in 1813 ...”

“... opposed to pursuing individual responsibility, as if prosecution were always a likely outcome. Jeremy Hunt, the former health secretary, wrote a book called Zero (2022) about unnecessary deaths in the health service, which repeats the usual line that the best way to prevent another case like Bawa-Garba’s is to end blame. On the Today programme last ...”