For anyone bored enough to keep up with Keith's logic, (I must be, but humouring him is a distraction that I welcome. Procrastination helps with the day...)

Keith says a newspaper reporter cum author who wrote a version of military history that his paymasters would like and serialise for him said one thing.

Keith says that it must be true because he is called Hastings so must be respectable. (Been watching or reading too much Agatha Christie I reckon.

An eminent historian, A J P Taylor asserted something that creates huge holes in the logic of Hastings, and of course wrote it decades earlier.....

Keith said he doesn't contradict Taylor either.

A classic case of having your cake and eating it.

Watch out if you wish to quiz him on this. In the spirit of Mudcat members having a love in, he will call you a liar, a disgrace to the memory of dead people and call quotes by famous people "made up shit" on the basis you quoted them.

Michael is clever enough to defend him in order not to have the machine gun spray in his direction, or stupid enough to defend him because he likes sanitised history that doesn't jar with what we were told in school and conditioned to believe. I can't fathom which.

Funny old world.

I feel a poem coming on.

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