Taki Taki

In praise of Spectator readers

The good-looking Kiwi couple gave me their raffle tickets but I had three gin and tonics on an empty stomach and forgot to check the numbers 
issue 23 July 2022

Michael Beloff, QC and past president of Trinity College Oxford, has just had his memoir reviewed in The Spectator, and it brought back memories. Here’s this really good man, the type who does the work, believes in the system, plays by the rules and subscribes to the old graces of courtesy and politeness, but the sort we never read about.

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