Empire of the Sun was an enormous literary and commercial success in Britain but pretty much bit the Big One on its own in the United States.

Between the 1950s and 1970s, Kinmenese weren't permitted to move away.

The campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq left him looking like the leader of a Blairist 'front' party as he backed the government on these and other issues.

“Unless what's happening here is that we're getting ratfucked ourselves.”