Quote of the day
They may then be willing to cast principled votes based on an educated understanding of the public interest in the face of polls suggesting that the public itself may have quite a different understanding of where its interest lies.
Max Hastings
Born: December 28, 1945 (age 80)
Bio: Sir Max Hugh Macdonald Hastings is a British journalist, editor, historian and author. His parents were Macdonald Hastings, a journalist and war correspondent and Anne Scott-James, sometime editor of Harper's Bazaar.
Known for:
- Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War (2013)
- All Hell Let Loose (2011)
- The Battle for the Falklands (1983)








