It is good for historians to take the plungeinto political writing, using their knowledgewhere they can to illuminate our present predicament. I declare an interest: I have tried itmyself, on the other side of the debate. Onehas to be open with the reader as to one’sintentions and willing to expose one’s ownopinions to the test of evidence.
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