Yet another victim of Britain’s (non) space policy

Andrew Roberts may be the best popular historian currently working on either side of the Atlantic. The Holy Fox, his biography of Lord Halifax, who almost became prime minister of Britain in 1940 instead of Winston Churchill, is a small masterpiece. Roberts has a near-perfect grasp of mid-20th century British politics and has an excellent and wide-ranging understanding of the history of the rest of the late, unlamented 20th century. His new book A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900 picks up where Winston Churchill’s History of the English-Speaking Peoples left off.