Seventy years ago American presidents didn’t play the victim like Donald Trump, they took matters into their own hands. Buzz Bissinger writes in Air Mail that when a Washington Post music critic panned a concert given by Harry Truman’s soprano daughter Margaret, calling her “flat a good deal of the time”, the president sent him a handwritten note calling the author of this “lousy” review a “frustrated old man” and saying he hoped they would one day meet. “When that happens,” he said, “you will need a new nose.”
Tim Shipman is not a man of few words. Especially when writing his epic chronicle of Brexit. After spending half a million of them on Theresa May’s ordeals in 2018 alone, he convinced his publisher to
