Jesse norman
“One of the greatest disasters ever to befall European civilisation”
I thought that I had blogged about this before, but I cannot find it, so I’ll do it again. Zhou Enlai did not say it was “too early to say” what impact the French Revolution had. In the Financial Times in June last year, Richard McGregor reported:
Zhou was not referring to the 1789 storming of [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Saturday, 14 July 2012 at 9:52 pm
“Glory, Glory, legal cobra”
Jesse Norman, the Conservative MP who distinguishes himself by being a defender of the Human Rights Act, has written a most entertaining tribute to Tom Bingham (pictured), his late father-in-law and Lord Chief Justice.
I was a bit rude about Lord Bingham once because he took what I thought was a political view against the Iraq war, dressed [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Saturday, 28 April 2012 at 4:36 pm
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