Much of this book is true, and the author does not pretend fully to understand what is happening. And yet I think her pessimism is overdone.
The start of the debate on the Queen’s Speech showed how the general election will be fought.
The trend of the public-facing political aide near the top of government will do more harm than good.
There would, quite rightly, be outrage if a senior Conservative figure delivered a speech to a crowd which waved fascist flags.
Taking out the middle man is what the Protestant reformers promised to do, and Carswell is in his way a very Protestant figure.
Is it truly necessary to keep reciting these arguments? Sadly, yes – in each generation some people are drawn to brutal ideologies.
The idea that Turkey is somehow backing ISIS has become a popular meme, assiduously spread online by Russian agents provocateurs, and taken up by some in Western Europe,
She has become the classic Golden Age detective novelist. But that was not her world, nor that of her readers.