A Broadcast Clash with a Moral Warrior

On Friday I discussed Britain’s standing in the world with Professor Anthony Glees of the University of Buckingham on the Jeremy Vine show on BBC Radio 2.  Depending on how much of the Beach Boys’ ‘California Girls’ you want to listen to, it’s at about 1 hour eight minutes into this

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b039blnf

 

 

It struck me as I listened to the Professor that he sounded rather less academic than I did. I was also right to say that I was referring specifically to Syria, not to the Middle East in general, hence my repeated references to the Sykes-Picot under which we parcelled out the Middle East with France (see that interesting book ‘A Line in the Sand’).