I can’t have been the only person disappointed when Francis Wheen’s column in the Guardian ended a year or so ago. The brief period of Rod Liddle really didn’t make up for it.
OK, so his biography of Marx still stares at me guiltily from one of my bookshelves unread, and there’s been his collection of journalism.
But now we have something new, and very worthwhile – How Mumbo Jumbo Changed The World. I haven’t read it yet, only the two extracts published in The Guardian. Skeptics of the world rejoice!