The Edinburgh Festival gave Bram and Gareth a chance to attend interviews with Nichola Sturgen, Angela Rayner, Keir Starmer and Jeremy Corbyn. We deliberately avoided the current crop of  politicians in favour of Jeremy because we thought he might prove to be the most interesting. It was after all astonishing that an MP who had first served under Harold Wilson, a known left wing dinosaur, CND activist and close friend of Tony Benn should have recently become a leader of  the Labour Party.

My Dutch grandfather had a remarkable career, first in the law, then in colonial government, then as an ambassador; later on he was prominent in the rebuilding of Holland after the war, serving for a time as head of the police force, and then was put in charge of rebuilding roads and waterways, including the reclamation of land flooded by the bombing of the dams in the war.