Simon Heffer - Progress, What Progress?

In a three-part series the Daily Mail columnist, Simon Heffer, gives his personal view of society's problems. His target: the liberal intelligentsia who he says are guilty of excusing the crimes of the 20th century's totalitarian dictators.
In Part One, he attacks the Whig interpretation of history.
In Part Two, Simon Heffer looks at key episodes from the last century and the beginning of this one. From Chamberlain to Butskellism to Thatcherism to the Third Way. Doesn't recent history prove that the line of causation is a myth?
In Part Three, he argues why he believes the Whig interpretation of events in the United States in the past century is wrong.

[@applesandpears9756]

Excellent. I saw a brief interview with Heffer, looked him up and here I am. Joy.

[@ruthst.claire9389]

S. Heffer wrote Strictly English for this book he will be a role model for me. I can never thank him enough.

[@susannamarker2582]

I'm in the middle of reading 'The Age of Decadence.' I'm 311 pages on, and I feel educated.

[@pdd60absorbed12]

Insightful and tagged as objective.

[@criticuttam]

Great episodes. Whilst many of the ideas explored are not original, Mr Heffer does a good job of eloquently putting it together. I wonder what he is up to these days, and if he is releasing anything similar to this one.

[@Dbdbe1]

Omits the awkward fact that we had to embrace the USSR as our allies in World War Two. Moreover we sometimes sacrificed brave partisans to the Soviets ourselves. And yes there is romanticism about the USSR which is ludicrous, but we made the wrong choice about which was more threatening and awful for a long time in the 1930s - the Nazis were the bigger threat, and we only very belatedly realized that.
These points should not be forgotten alongside the (correct) highlighting of Stalin's murderous madness, and the appalling Gulags.