I left those meetings with a sense that the very ordinariness of the people who wrote the bills, who built the coalitions, whose day job was the grinding unglamorous work of serving freedom ...

On this theme, one area where we have been active recently is an unglamorous sector in an unloved part of an undervalued market: UK small-cap industrials. We think the sector hides a number of gems.

They all signed up to the Leicester-based Unglamorous Music project, which encouraged women to write and play their own music. The project came to an end after founder, Ruth Miller, died from ...