Go on, Theresa, surprise us with your Desert Island Discs

Most politicians opt to play it safe and choose something predictable, so what will the home secretary pick on Sunday

Will Theresa May toe party line on Desert Island Discs?

Politics must deal with the world as it is. Music imagines the world as it might be. Unlike some of their more intellectually self-confident continental counterparts, pragmatically inclined British politicians are naturally more at home with the former than the latter.

Ever sensitive to the brutality and philistinism of the British press, it is also little surprise that most British politicians view an invitation to appear on Desert Island Discs as an irresistible honour but also as something of a minefield.

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