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“... England novelist, the laureate of a country physically, ideologically and spiritually clapped-out. Tony Barley reads le Carré ‘for ideology’. He discerns in the novels’ obsessive play with loyalty and treachery a classic depiction of the British liberal dilemma: ‘Fearing the definition and cost that taking sides entails, the liberal is most ...”

“... months since I was writing in my diary that sometimes being English it felt as if one smelled. To Tony Blair, though, it is of roses. Note how in the south-west even the humblest hamlet nowadays seems to boast a business park. 12 May, Long Crichel. Driving through rain-soaked Dorset we stop at Puddletown and the church there which is full of fixtures and ...”

“... its noble parish churches and its traditional preoccupation with stock breeding, grazing and barley growing, is one of the last remaining bits of untouched rural England.’ The Crown Hotel is now a residential home for elderly ladies; its courtyard has gone into service as a shopping arcade. Oakham recedes as I drive on towards Melton Mowbray, whose ...”

“... Valentino. Her time was filled by three activities. She was a wonderful cook of chicken soup, barley soup, matzo balls, gefilte fish, heimishe fish – fried fish to be eaten cold. She sat reading Yiddish books and newspapers. And she played patience, the cards spread out on the dining-room table. She taught me several varieties and I became and have ...”