Most pundits on foreign affairs who clog up our comment pages have three things in common. They do not speak or read foreign languages. They dislike Europe or, if on the left, the United States. They tend to be former editors of national newspapers or magazines.
The words of Denis MacShane,Labour MP for Rotherham, who is reviewing Facts Are Subversive, By Timothy Garton Ash in the Independent
It appears that Garton Ash is the only foreign correspondent that Denis MacShane likes because
He is fluent in German, Polish and French. That may explain why he is the only British writer on foreign affairs who is translated and taken seriously in Germany, France, Italy, Spain and Poland as well as the US.
Ht-Jon Slattery
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