Wednesday 8 January 2020

A century of progress? Hardly

Reading the Richard Hannay stories created by John Buchan a century ago shows how little the world has changed. There are still an abundance of the wilder Communist sects up to no good, murderous hobbledehoys in Ireland and international criminal syndicates, e.g. the ones in Russia and Iran, and moral imbeciles, who are swept into any movement by those who understand them, are everywhere and ready and willing to wave their red flags.

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