In our depersonalised world where the information age leaves many of us bewildered by data, it seems the only time we trust our intuition is as we fall on our sword. (Boris goes bust, 8/7). Across town at Wimbledon, tennis great Rafael Nadal also had a “gut feeling” he too should retire, but his reasoning appears more biological than rhetorical. What an anticlimax the tennis final would have been if he had made it only one more round. With each of the most recent Conservative PMs being outsiders, we might not lose hope that the wittiest and most intellectual MP in the Commons, Jacob Rees Mogg is in the race to replace his diametrically opposite. Alan Sexton, North Parramatta 11July2022.