Have you come far?

New justice of the Supreme Court certainly has

It’s said to be the Queen’s favourite ice-breaker, though on this occasion the question came from someone else at Buckingham Palace.

“Just from North London,” Vivien Rose replied in 2013, as she waited to be invested as a Dame Commander of the British Empire. But in her head she was shouting “Yes, actually I have!” because her route to the High Court the…