This England: If he could speak to the animals

This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain – has run in the NS since 1934.

By New Statesman

Lindsay Hoyle, the Commons Speaker, has named his new tabby kitten Attlee, after the postwar Labour prime minister. Hoyle also owns a parrot called Boris, a Patterdale terrier named Betty and a tortoise named Maggie, “who has a hard shell and isn’t for turning”.
The Times (Amanda Welles)

[See also: This England: Hot-hoofing it]