I don't want to spoil Johann's already-classic take-down of the British historian Andrew Roberts. You should read the entirety of this TNR piece, but here's my favorite paragraph. Hari at his bitchiest best:
Andrew Roberts describes himself as "extremely right wing" and "a reactionary," and, in Great Britain, the 44-year-old has long been regarded as a caricature of a caricature of the old imperial historians. He famously lauds the British Empire–and its massacres and suppressions–as "glorious" on every occasion. He sucks up to the English aristocracy to the point that Tatler, the society journal, says, "[H]is adolescent crush on the upper classes is matched by virtually no one else in this country." One of the few things that can silence Roberts is a mention of his origins in the distinctly nonaristocratic merchant classes, with a father who owned a string of Kentucky Fried Chicken franchises. Much as he longs to be K&C (Kensington and Chelsea), to those he adores, he will always have the whiff of KFC.
The irony here being that if Roberts is a latterday Evelyn Waugh, the original acid-tongued pinstripe would have made short work of Roberts pere's lower orders deep-frying.
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