1. At her coronation in 1'53, the Queen swore to uphold "the laws of God and the true profession of the Gospel, maintain the Protestant reformed religion established by law and maintain and reserve inviolably the settlement of the Church of England." The Spectator article quotes a courtier as saying the Queen recognises, however, that she has no say over her son‘s coronation service.

2. Remnick, who was hired by Brown, has never been critical of her tenure, and is inviolably modest about his own contribution. ‘My background is as a reporter and foreign correspondent, but it‘s hard to separate what one‘s natural inclinations are from the times,‘ he tells me. ‘My time as editor has been overlapped by a crisis – a prolonged, labyrinthine, tragic, seemingly non–ending crisis – that involves the prehistory of '/11, '/11, Iraq, Afghanistan, fraught histories between the United States and almost everyone.‘ Remnick‘s colleague Malcolm Gladwell, author of the bestselling books The Tipping Point and Blink, says, similarly, that ‘we live in a suddenly serious time, where people have an appetite for intelligent, thoughtful explanations of consequential topics‘. Yet how can Remnick‘s editorial strategy be considered inevitable when no one else is doing what he does?