The obituaries and tributes to Paul Johnson, a columnist with a penchant for 'entertaining' bigotry, show tedious contrarianism is not a modern affliction.
I had a quick look. Among his more lucrative shite was a grovelling (naturally, it was paid-for) history of Consolidated Goldfields, one of the two giants of South African gold mining. CGF's thoughtful approach to labour relations included an arrangement to pipe tear-gas direct into the hostels of their employees if they got too uppity. Oddly, Johnson didn't mention this...
Nice deflation of that venomous blimp.
I'd forgotten that Johnson was a mouthpiece for Tories for Torture and Pinochet's boot-lickers.
Thanks, Anthony. His back catalogue was rich pile of manure.
I had a quick look. Among his more lucrative shite was a grovelling (naturally, it was paid-for) history of Consolidated Goldfields, one of the two giants of South African gold mining. CGF's thoughtful approach to labour relations included an arrangement to pipe tear-gas direct into the hostels of their employees if they got too uppity. Oddly, Johnson didn't mention this...