The past is never dead, it isn’t even past
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Pop quiz. Who proclaimed, "all Europe is my home"? Andrew Adonis? Nick Clegg? Terry Christian? It was Oswald Mosley. The British electorate rejected Mosley, as it did the European Union. And, unlike parts of our political establishment, civil service, and media, the...
John le Carré may have a few rivals when selecting the greatest novelist of the late 20th century (there are arguments to be made for Graham Greene, Tom Wolfe, and Philip Roth, among others) but he certainly has no superior. Le Carré was not just a chronicler of the...
Pat Hobby shook his head in sadness at the news on the radio. The world was at war. His next whisky would be a double. France had fallen. Great Britain was standing alone. Hitler and his Nazi thugs controlled Europe. Pat spared a thought for Jakob Lowenstein, a...
When approaching this book, I initially thought that the author would either be preaching to the converted or throwing pearls before swine. We are living in an increasingly polarised world. The old are often pitched against the young and vice-versa, whether the media...
