A racing tipster who only reached Hitler's level of accuracy would not do well for his clients.

In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.

George VI in the conventional parlance was a Good King who sacrificed his life to his sense of duty. If we are to have monarchs it would be hard to find a better one.

Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914.

When I write I have no loyalty except to historical truth as I see it and care no more about British achievements and mistakes than any other.

If men are to respect each other for what they are, they must cease to respect each other for what they own.

Fascism was little more than terrorist rule by corrupt gangsters. Mussolini was not corrupt himself but he did nothing except to rage impotently.