Good morning. Welcome to the Saturday Read, the New Statesman’s guide to politics, culture, books, and ideas. This is Jason, together with Finn, Nicholas, Pippa and George. The Spectator magazine has a new editor, Michael Gove. His appointment was a surprise to many at Westminster, and among the Spectator staff, but not to the New Statesman: our media columnist Alison Phillips reported several weeks ago that he had been offered the job.