Thirty-Eight Thousand Bunches of Sweet Peas
Jonathan Parry: Lord Northcliffe’s Empire, 1 December 2022
The Chief: The Life of Lord Northcliffe
by Andrew Roberts.
Simon & Schuster, 545 pp., £25, August 2022,978 1 3985 0869 9 Show More
by Andrew Roberts.
Simon & Schuster, 545 pp., £25, August 2022,
“... of enemies. Educated liberals, especially, accused him of lowering the tone of national debate. George Gissing was levelling this charge even before the Mail was founded. Once its anti-German campaign started, many claimed that it was making foreign tensions worse. Northcliffe has never ceased to be an object of fascination; fourteen books about him had ... ”