On Bias in the Publishing Industry

Mr 'Un' (the contributor formerly known as 'Thinking') is among those who jeer at my contention that the publishing industry, bookshops etc are in general biased against conservative writers in this country. I think this is much less true in the USA, for reasons I'll go into.

As a change from some of the other topics that engage us, I thought I would explain why I think this is so. And I shall do so by describing what happened to me when I first became an author.

I was urged by a friend in...