“Liz Truss does not understand a word I write,” says her favourite author
Why bad ideas survive
Liz Truss’s inspiration: Ronald Reagan getting it wrong in the 1980s
In the summer of 2022, when Liz Truss was about to become prime minister, I noticed that she was an admirer of Rick Perlstein, one of the great historians of modern America.
Aspiring politicians like to tell the media about their favourite writers, even if they barely look at a book fro…
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