From a review by Simon Heffer of a new book on the Crimean War, in last week's Spectator -

Lord Cardigan was assaulted by a pair of Cossack lancers during the Light Brigade's manoeuvres. They tried to capture him. One of them speared his thigh with a lance. Cardigan refused even to draw his sword, 'considering it unworthy of a commanding officer to be seen brawling with private soldiers'. A man with such a sense of propriety as that deserved better than to be commemorated by an item of knitwear.


The same issue of the Speccie contains a devastating review of the the third and final volume of Norman Sherry's Life of Graham Greene by an apparently outraged Philip Hensher.

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