Superna Petimus, Indeed

Good for Dr Joel Hayward (academics called Hayward are a Good Thing, in my experience), Dean of the Royal Air Force College Cranwell. I am delighted that the occupant of that position is a critic of the ethics and legality of the war in Libya. That is entirely as it should be.

I am also given to understand that the Joint Services Command and Staff College is regularly lectured by Professor A C Grayling, author of the unanswerable Among The Dead Cities, an immensely appreciative review of which will appear in Book Three, Four or Five. I have not yet decided the order. But you will be unsurprised to learn that I have certainly decided what I am going to say.