A successful biography should be, on top of everything else, a good read. It needs a cracking, whip-like narrative. To expect that from the third volume of a life crammed with high policy and political complexity might seem absurd. And yet this reads, for the most part, like a sophisticated thriller.
Charles Moore is one of the most partisan journalists on the right, a lifelong Thatcherite and an utterly committed hater of the BBC, for which this reviewer proudly works. He has, if I can put it this way, a right-wing face. He is as committed a believer in class as any local Momentum organiser: almost every character is introduced in a note explaining which school he went to. And it’s mostly he, and it’s mostly Eton.
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