cool -----Original Message----- From: Jonathan Sandys <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, March 08, 2010 3:05 PM To: ChurchillChat <[email protected]> Subject: [ChurchillChat] CHURCHILL CRITIC: ‘SIR’ MAX HASTINGS – Not quite the Knight in shining armour.
I have done some research into Hastings and his background and it raises several questions about his psychology and also the accuracy of his historical writings. Max Hastings was a child rejected by both parents. His mother, Anne Scott-James, (a notable journalist), was a thrice married feminist who, (according to an article written and implied by Hastings himself), seemed to spend more time at Oxford University worrying about her next male conquest: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1253061/MAX-HASTINGS-Mummy-women-tried-I-despised--I-wrong.html Despite the unhappy relationship with his mother, Hastings followed her into journalism, and also, it appears, (according to his Wikipedia profile), the divorce courts. When Hastings decided to side with his 'selfish' father over his parents divorce, Anne Scott-James wrote him out of her will. "If I'd murdered her," Hastings wrote in a recent article, "no jury would have convicted me." Hastings blames his own parents divorce for the break-up of his first marriage and thirty years of unhappiness he suffered, and as you can read in the article linked below he takes no responsibility for his marriage or its break-up whatsoever. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1253537/MAX-HASTINGS-My-mother-wrot [The entire original message is not included] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ChurchillChat" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/churchillchat?hl=en.
