Among this month’s contributors

Alan Johnson (p13) was Home Secretary, Health Secretary and Education Secretary, and Labour MP for Hull West and Hessle, 1997-2017. His latest book is In My Life: A Music Memoir.

Misti Traya (p27) is a California girl who now lives in Blackheath, south London. An actress and writer, she has appeared in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and the sitcom How I Met Your Mother.

Brough Scott (p21) won more than 100 races as a jockey, including the Imperial Cup and the Mandarin Handicap Chase. Since 1971, he’s been a TV racing presenter and a racing correspondent.

The Rev Peter Mullen (p18), ordained in 1970, served in town and country parishes before moving to the City Churches of St Michael, Cornhill, and St Sepulchre-without-newgate for 14 years.