Just think how politics could be transformed if politicians were kind to one another! I don’t suppose that’ll happen, but the rest of us can try.

I’m not a fan of royalty, but I saw a story a few weeks ago about a surgeon who went to an official event with the queen and was so traumatised by his recent war experiences that he could hardly speak. Apparently she sent someone to fetch her corgis and just sat with him at the formal dinner, feeding the corgis together under the table. I thought that was a wonderful thing to do.

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