The Guardian's review of JR-M's book is a scream.

[Burney]

"The Victorians consists of a dozen clumsily written pompous schoolboy compositions about 19th-century characters."

That's from that bastian of socialism the Times. Might just be that it is a **** book written by a charlatan

It's 'bastion', la. You've been in Munich too long and are clearly thinking of Schweinsteiger.