Bugger me. The Daily Telegraph is now put forward as the Oracle of opinion. ..

Scraping the barrel a bit aren't we Keith?

How about when having Hastings dismiss his war memoirs, a very old very still with it Spike Milligan noted that the works of the likes of Hastings and Taylor are evidence that history is written by the victors. (Taylor called his books unreliable. Milligan was so happy about this he quoted it on the book jackets. )