My candidate was the insanely Right-wing Alan Clark, a historian who lived in a castle in Kent, who was also a notorious womaniser and rogue; he had once had an affair with the wife of a judge and also slept with both their daughters, and even his own wife referred to him as a ‘shit’. In an age when people use all sorts of euphemisms to downplay how Right-wing they are, Clark described himself as a ‘Nazi’, although as with many reactionaries no one was really sure if it was a joke, or a joke masking deadly seriousness.5 He did name his pet Rottweiler after Eva Braun, though, which I suppose
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