Nov 28, 2020
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The Giant of English Literature who Predicted the Rise of Islamic Fundamentalism
It is more than sixty years since I took the English Literature examination for what was then called the General Certificate of Education, Ordinary Level or GCE ‘O’ Level. And yet there is something from one of the books we studied that lives with me still, and probably influences much of my own writing. The book was Belloc’s Essays. The piece that so…
