In case you missed Friday's holiday alert...

In what can only be described as an outrageous act of pure self-indulgence, this blogger is taking a week off in order to stomp around the Peak District hoping to avoid a mobile phone signal. His devoted readers (Whom God Preserve) may therefore also have a week off, and can feel liberated from the obligation to peruse the Long Read of the Day when they have better things to do! Normal service will be resumed on September 6.

In the meantime, my column about Dominic Cummings and his Substack blog in yesterday’s Observer may provide some diversion.

And here, straight from the Peak District is my feeble homage to Henri Cartier-Bresson.

See you next Monday!