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We know what to expect from the literati who make up the north London-north Oxford axis of banality, but if you want to know how wide the gulf between America and Middle England has now become, it is worth pondering the words of Lt. Col. Tim Collins. The nearest thing Britain has to a Gulf War II hero — he thundered into the headlines last year after making a stirring eve-of-battle speech to his troops — Col. Collins was one of a group of VIPs given the opportunity to review David Hare's new play, Stuff Happens, in the pages of The Guardian newspaper.
Regular readers may already be aware that I have a low opinion of the writer acclaimed as Britain's greatest political dramatist. Where admirers hear a penetrating voice of conscience, I can only detect a relentlessly self-satisfied purveyor of cliches.