Two of the more provocative sentences we've found in one review in some time...who could they be about?

He wrote, his biographer tells us, “as an anxious, sometimes semi-hysterical, High Tory, who stood staunchly behind a conservative agenda that was essentially imperialistic, defensive and intolerant….”

...It is perhaps no surprise that tabloid-Toryism would have so odd an origin: the greatest of all Conservative prime ministers, after all, was an over-dressed gay Jewish novelist.