TUESDAY 4TH JULY AT SIMPSON’S

Rory Stewart

on The Marches Stewart and his ninety-year-old father walk together along the frontier that divides Scotland and England. The thirty-day journey sees the pair reflect on everything from Burmese honey-bears to the loss of human presence in the landscape.

Harry Mount

on Summer Madness: How Brexit Split the Tories, Destroyed Labour and Divided the Country Our editor’s first-hand account of how Brexit destroyed everyone it touched, Cameron, Osborne and Corbyn among them. We will hear why Brexit won, why Gove knifed Boris and why Boris bottled his leadership bid. Adam Hart-davis on Very Heath Robinson: Stories of His Absurdly Ingenious World Adam Hart-davis of What the Romans Did for Us places the comic artist Heath Robinson’s bizarrely complicated yet endearingly homespun inventions against the backdrop of his life and times, with a slideshow to support.