“The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat.”
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If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.
The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead.
You have no idea how humiliating it was, as a boy, to suddenly have all your clothes, your toys, snatched by the bailiff. I mean we were a middle-class family, it's not as if it was happening up and down the street. It made me ashamed, I felt dirty.
During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity.
