A fate for a kingmaker

What happens to kingmakers once the kings have been made?

So asks a concerned supporter of Nick Clegg, wondering whether both Brown and Cameron might be cunningly displaced by their man in a rerun of the Wars of the Roses and what might happen after that.

On press day at the TLS, there is no time for more than a brief note of the Battle of Barnet, the one in 1471 which restored Edward IV, not the one which returned the excellent Theresa Villiers to the Commons last week.

That was the battle ...