Simon Schama urged an audience at Hay over the weekend to stand up for freedom of expression, as his friends Martin Amis and Christopher Hitchens did, and not capitulate to moralising censors.
Martin Amis was a brilliant stylist with a scabrous wit. But, ye gods, save us from the bien-pensant moralising about the Holocaust, nuclear weapons, the environment, Brexit and Trump, says Dr James Alexander.
In this week's London Calling, the bone of contention is whether the misery we've been put through over the last three years was a cock-up or a conspiracy. Also, fond memories are shared of Martin Amis and Jeremy Clarke.
