I love seeing politicians made to look foolish, but in this case they did it themselves. I knew Thatcher was arrogant & I've been a fan, but I never knew she made decisions like those re-counted here that proved her, on this matter at least, to be nothing less than stupid
Some things are much better off left alone, George Smiley is one of them. This isn't terrible but its not close to what his father wrote on his worst day
Absolutely beautiful writing. As always nothing marvellous in the mystery , but the writing is superb, worth the price alone for its descriptions of the Irish landscape.
A nice overview, my handicap is having zero knowledge of the geography over which the war was fought. A particularly brutal war.
An interesting man who never wasted a minute of his relatively short life but this is very dull reading.
Its one of Lownies first outings and suffers from the dreaded in biography , and then and then and...
It reads like an over long magazine profile.
Brilliant writing and very moving at the end, he wrote this column right up until his death from cancer. The columns are often very funny, and apparently he was one of the great night outs
Always a delight, never anything too controversial or earth shatteringly insightful but filled with humour and a gentle take on the absurdity of life. Still an exceptionally busy man
I love seeing politicians made to look foolish, but in this case they did it themselves. I knew Thatcher was arrogant & I've been...
