Top of the class minister: McHugh rejects advice on history

There has hardly been a moment when the need for an informed understanding of history, of how countries work together or fail together, was as important. Some of Brexiteers’ statements, particularly the MPs who would have enjoyed a career untroubled by public attention but for the upheavals of the day, are examples of what happens when ignorance stands in the place of competence.

President Trump is, frighteningly, an example of what happens when lavish inheritance makes an education seem unimportant.