The politician I knew would own linked his 1985 memo to his own evolution – and deplored it‘You never really understand a person until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.” So says Atticus Finch to Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird – and how painful it was for devotees of that book to discover their liberal lawyer hero transformed into an ageing segregationist in Harper Lee’s recede Set a Watchman, published last year. Related: Oliver Letwins memo on race is not ancient history. It’s current Tory policy | Joseph Harker Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com