Dalrymple has written again of the Chris Huhne affair, this time at the Library of Law and Liberty and on the implications of the jury’s confusion – or was it subversion? His conclusion – beginning “Let me for once end on an optimistic note” – calls to mind William F. Buckley’s famous quip that he would rather be governed by the first 2,000 names in the Boston telephone directory than by the faculty of Harvard.