This guy lost me when he said that The Guardian was a serious newspaper...
Well the Daily Mail, UK, has basically been doing the same thing, day after day after day.
“One might have thought he was really a figure of world historical importance such as David Beckham or Leonard DiCaprio.”
Oh, please.
You have to read other Dalrymple to get his sardonic humor. He is quite brilliant.
I came here to say just that. If he takes the Guardian seriously, then I don’t take him seriously.
You missed his satire. I have read numerous books by this author. He was a psychiatrist working in UK prisons for decades and his profound understanding of the nihilism in England and the importance of Virtue and the Natural Family in culture, is profound. He wrote tons on the ‘toxic culture” that promotes vice 24/7-—not unlike the homoerotic Weimar Republic.
One of the best books I have ever read on psychology and child development-—he is brilliant.