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Diary

David Starkey’s diary: Why don’t we celebrate the triumphs of private dentistry?

Plus: Ed Miliband’s dangerous virtue, and a more enjoyable alternative to Adam Smith

18 April 2015

9:00 AM

18 April 2015

9:00 AM

To the dentist. And for an extraction. I hadn’t had a tooth out in decades. But the twinges when I bit on a nut warned me that my problem molar — much abused by a badly fitted bridge in the 1970s — had finally given way. My usual dentist confirmed as much with a poke and an X-ray.

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