The writer is still with us, and I think we should lend an ear while he is. In fact, at 83 he’s still kicking ass and taking names. As proof of which, this interview with The Times, London.
His voice strengthens. “One thing I have hated all my life are LIARS [he says that with bristling anger] and I live in a nation of them. It was not always the case. I don’t demand honour, that can be lies too. I don’t say there was a golden age, but there was an age of general intelligence. We had a watchdog, the media.” The media is too supine? “Would that it was. They’re busy preparing us for an Iranian war.”
See, can’t get much more on point than that.
