No author, ‘Nunc Dimittis’, August 5-18, 1982, pg. 3

Article on Metropolitan Police Commander Michael Trestrail, the Queen’s personal protection officer, who was outed by the press in 1982. JB’s novel Another Country mentioned in the article in relation to Trestrail’s Cornish heritage and sexuality:

‘At heart, Trestrail was and is from another country [Cornwall] than the capital set in southern England, where he worked. And we now know that at heart he was from yet ‘another country’ (using the metaphor made famous by gay black novelist James Baldwin) because unlike the majority of his colleagues of 30 years in the ‘Met’ he’s gay.