‘The 9/11 terrorists were not just lucky once: they were lucky over and over again.’
9/11 widow Mindy Kleinberg addressing the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States 31 March 2003.

When I asked for this book in one of London’s radical bookshops, I was told they didn’t stock the work of a Tory columnist. The kindly assistant didn’t know that Peter Oborne had written a fine book on South-African-born cricketer Basil D’Oliveira, confirming with solid evidence the long-held suspicions of anti-apartheid campaigners about the malign roles of business and politicians in Pretoria and London and the conspiracy hatched with the Lord’s cricket establishment.