I was impressed you mentioned Maurice Cowling and Corelli Barnett. I (naturally) have read books by both. The fact you know who they are suggests you may possibly be my intellectual equal. Kind regards for 2024.
I believe these people deliberately play up their 'traitor' reputation (elsewhere in the book, McDonald makes a big show getting criticised in the Daily Express) because it implies they have agency. They are just as paralyzed by Democracy as politicians. McDonald was happy serving British interests within the E.U paradigm and is simply unprepared to change his worldview in late middle age. The fault isn't with civil servants it is with our inability to rapidly sack them when circumstances change.
I was impressed you mentioned Maurice Cowling and Corelli Barnett. I (naturally) have read books by both. The fact you know who they are suggests you may possibly be my intellectual equal. Kind regards for 2024.
You probably already know it but, if you don’t, you might find Churchill, The End of Glory by John Charmley to be quite interesting
I believe these people deliberately play up their 'traitor' reputation (elsewhere in the book, McDonald makes a big show getting criticised in the Daily Express) because it implies they have agency. They are just as paralyzed by Democracy as politicians. McDonald was happy serving British interests within the E.U paradigm and is simply unprepared to change his worldview in late middle age. The fault isn't with civil servants it is with our inability to rapidly sack them when circumstances change.