I’m not a historian, not an expert on World War I, so maybe it’s just that I’ve overlooked it. But it seems to me that there was something missing from last night’s first episode of the BBC’s Great War extravaganza – something, in fact, that’s been missing from all the moving reportage of the horror,…
Read MoreNothing to do with writing, nothing to do with Scannell … but sometimes we all need to let off steam. Why are the pinko-leftie bleeding heart liberal columnists so critical of Tom Perkins, the American billionaire venture capitalist whose letter to the Wall Street Journal so movingly compares the plight of the 1% richest US citizens,…
Read MoreSo there he is – a sad, furtive figure in a raincoat, skulking in the bushes of some suburban garden and trying to get a peek through a chink in the curtains at people undressing for bed. Not exactly someone to admire, still less to emulate. And yet, figuratively speaking, that’s what I spent three…
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