Busy doing nothing

This week: Dominic Raab should not be foreign secretary, a tour of Agatha Christie’s England, and I go in search of the poles.

Pets grow to look like their owners; governments like their Prime Ministers. 

Sometimes, as with the slick but empty managerialism of the Cameron-Clegg coalition, this grows out of a sense of political fashion, the idea that this is just what a successful government looks like. Sometimes – as with Theresa May’s legacy, in the form of a lingering sense th…