This week’s Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting has provoked dissent unusual, these days, within this rather anodyne, harmless and ineffectual body. Not since Margaret Thatcher used to turn up at CHOGMs in the 1980s and tease African despots about her unwillingness to implement sanctions on South Africa have tensions run so high.
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Simon Heffer is author of High Minds: The Victorians and the Birth of Modern Britain (Random House), out now.
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