Lucy Vickery

Spectator competition winners: Would you give Anne Boleyn a job?

Genevieve Bujold as Anne Boleyn and Richard Burton as Henry VII in the film ‘Anne of the Thousand Days’ [Snap/Shutterstock]

In Competition No. 3165 you were invited to supply a job reference for a well-known public figure, past or present, that while seemingly positive reveals the failings of the candidate in question.

Robert Schechter discerns a streak of modesty in Donald Trump: ‘His reluctance to boast about his great wealth has driven him to take drastic measures to conceal his financial records from the public.’

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