his personal battles and Scottish politics Features Scotsma
“I remember as if it were yesterday the spectacle of the TV disappearing in a sudden eruption of smoke and a cascade of glass with much tinkling and clatter.”Over the years there will have been many viewers of Newsnight and Question Time who, when greeted by Sir Max Hastings, in his pin-stripe suit, hawk nose and even more hawkish views, would wish to reach for a loaded Luger and replicate his childhood mishap. Margaret Thatcher, for one, who reportedly never forgave him for sacking her daughter, Carol Thatcher, during his long tenure as editor of The Daily Telegraph, or his fellow war correspondents who watched as he grabbed the glory during the Falklands war by becoming the first man into Port Stanley.
