Hi Der
Thanks for that useful link



AJP Taylor was a dreadful show-off but had much to show off
I remember c1970 a bunch of us crowded into the Physics Lecture room at UCL to hear a lunchtime lecture about August 1914. At 13.15 AjP took the plateform and without notes, or hesitation or repetition or deviation, or a glance at his watch, spoke for exactly 45 minutes and then quit, ignoring thunderous applause

His - profoundly erroneous - doctrine that big events have little causes could yield wownderfully enlightening and dramatic descriptions. His narrative climaxed with Gavrilo Princip drowning his sorrow over his botched assasination attempt, only to find the Archdukes car pull up next to his cafe table and give hime a second chance to change world history
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You are quite wrong about Brian Walden. True, he was a right wing Labour MP and a fan of Mrs Thatcher, but that should not matter. His journalism met a high standard of objectivity that is long gone from MSM