A few years ago the old fool was pressured into signing that fantasy letter claiming there was anti-Semitism in the Labour Party. Along with William Boyd, the grotesque old spook John Le Carre, Fay Weldon, and scores of other British mediocrities.

"There's something relentlessly tragic about politics," he purrs to Susie Ferguson toward the end of the interview.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday