You’ve lost your job, the career you built up over some 20 years is over, the lofty goals you set for yourself remained, in the end, out of reach. What do you do next? How about edit The Spectator?
For Michael Gove, landing one of the plum roles of journalism came less than three months after he stepped away, voluntarily it should be said, from his political life as MP for Surrey Heath and former Cabinet minister.
Who knows what the long-serving hacks on The Spectator, some perhaps ambitious for the top job themselves, think of the appointment, which follows the takeover of the magazine by GB News backer Paul Marshall.
