Dearest Gentle Reader, this Monday brings a column that ranges from the schoolroom to the gaol cell, from the gravest of anniversaries to the most theatrical of political reshuffles. Nearly half of the Kingdom's teachers plan to quit, a rabbi speaks of a community more frightened now than on the day of the attack, and Lady Badenoch rearranges her china whilst the house debates whose dangerous prisoners these really are - yours to discover within.

Dearest Gentle Reader, the prisons are full, a pastor is mourned, and a shadow minister has announced himself to the world a full two years before anyone is required to vote. This Sunday brings grief, political theatre, and a Channel crossing gone very badly wrong - and this Author has opinions on all of it.

Dearest Gentle Reader, this Wednesday delivers a trinity of disquiet - a prison system creaking at its seams, a monster who walked free whilst those who should have stopped him looked elsewhere, and a Kingdom slowly roasting under skies that have quite forgotten their manners. This Author has read the dispatches, set down her pen twice in agitation, and resolved that you must read every word. Prepare yourself accordingly.