9 April

I spent some time with Prince Philip, over a few days in the 1970s. It was fascinating to get that time with a Royal outside their formal, public duties. His death makes me think again about service and duty, and how little those things count in modern leadership. Those formal social events we mostly hate going to? That was his life, for 7 decades. That's what I think we've lost, the idea that custom, tradition and duty - our past - needs to constantly shape our present.