Daily Archives: 24/02/2023

As I get to the end of Mallory’s Morte d’Arthur I understand why it’s a great book rather than simply a collection of knightly names and tournaments. That won’t stop it getting banned once the woke censors finish with Dahl and Shakespeare and get round to spotting its sexism, Islamophobia, colonialism and gratuitous violence. But one thing it cannot be accused of is historical verisimilitude.