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Remind Me: Who Was The Greater Mass Murderer, Stalin Or Hitler? Well, Stalin Is Thought To Have Been Responsible For About 50 Million Deaths, And Hitler For A Mere 25 Million. What Hitler Did In His Concentration Camps Was Equalled If Not Exceeded In Foulness By The Soviet Gulags, Forced Starvation And Pogroms. What Makes The Achievements Of Communist Russia So Special And Different, That You Can Simper Around In A Cccp T-shirt, While Anyone Demented Enough To Wear Anything Commemorating The Third Reich Would Be Speedily Banged Away Under The 1986 Public Order Act?

As A Scot Gordon Brown Will Find It Hard To Convince People In England He Should Be Prime Minister.

It Is Possible To Have A Pretty Good Life And Career Being A Leech And A Parasite In The Media World, Gadding About From Tv Studio To Tv Studio, Writing Inconsequential Pieces And Having A Good Time.

Some People Play The Piano, Some Do Sudoku, Some Watch Television, Some People Go Out To Dinner Parties. I Write Books.

Churchill Decides From Very Early On That He Will Create A Political Position That Is Somehow Above Left And Right, Embodying The Best Points Of Both Sides And Thereby Incarnating The Will Of The Nation. He Thinks Of Himself As A Gigantic Keystone In The Arch, With All The Lesser Stones Logically Induced To Support His Position. He Has A Kind Of Semi-ideology To Go With It - A Leftish Toryism: Imperialist, Romantic, But On The Side Of The Working Man.