WHO’S AFRAID OF MACHIAVELLI?I think Machiavelli’s...

WHO’S AFRAID OF MACHIAVELLI?

I think Machiavelli’s analysis of power is the most brilliant I’ve ever read, so I enjoyed this BBC documentary about him. I have two quibbles with it, one minor, one major.

The minor one is that it is historically erroneous to claim that Neil Kinnock was beloved by the Labour Party during his time as its leader. He was a deeply divisive figure, loathed and despised by much of the party’s membership (including me at the time; I’m one of the many who left the party b...