“... when one’s baby-sitter is a cabinet minister one realises one is really old!21 May 1997. Howard Davies is appointed chairman-designate of ‘SuperSIB’ (or, as it is later christened by Gordon Brown, the Financial Services Authority), as much to his surprise as everyone else’s. He had been on his way to South America in his capacity as deputy governor of ...”

“... 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 ...”