(as those chimerical factoids are usually trotted out, ever so selectively)

Mr. Mallaby appears to be that rarity amongst the political writers - well grounded in our history, incisive as to many of our prevailing (sometimes Wonderfully hopeful) inconsistencies! and capable of managing two scales of thinking at once!

Thus he escapes the epithet, Pundit - those self-important postulators of pewling Jingoism (or anti-such) - who somehow always fail either to illuminate or to.. convince.

Triumph over 'logic' indeed - as if homo-sap ever were logical! except in machine design and - the seduction of juries via martialled factoids.



Nice change of pace,

A.