The latest book by Man in the News, Chris Bryant, is The Glamour Boys. It is excellent, even if it does keep referring to "Christ Church College", which I assume is an Oxford in-joke.
The book is also an insight into the foreign policy position that is espoused by Bryant, who is a stalwart of the Henry Jackson Society. Several of the Glamour Boys went to war, and some of them were killed in action, so they were no neocon chickenhawks of today.
But they did want a war in order to restore the Berlin of Christopher Isherwood and Cabaret. Avant la lettre, that was very much the neoconservatism that is once again dominant in all three political parties. I am the Independent parliamentary candidate for North West Durham. What are you doing?
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