His writing is an almost parodical one-stop shop for every misconception, misreading of history and civilisational pathology in the mindset of Britain’s upper class, Arabist, right. I look forward to Shepherd’s book, due out in the autumn, in which he analyses the dysfunctional inability of establishment people like this in Britain and Europe to view Israel rationally.
Sunday, 10th May 2009
Another rancid dropping from the British camel corps
11:48pm
I’m delighted to see that the truly excellent Robin Shepherd, a rare British voice of reasoned authority and moral decency on international affairs, has started a blog here. Today, he writes about a typically disgusting rant by Sir Max Hastings about Israel, against which Hastings routinely displays an obsessive animus. As Shepherd observes:
Sunday, 10 May 2009
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