“Perhaps the real difficulty facing anyone seeking intellectuals at the highest political levels in England is that the intellectual agenda which drove ideologically-configured political movements in continental Europe was quite absent in London.”

—  Tony Judt

Source: Thinking the Twentieth Century (2012), Ch. 2: London and Language: English Writer

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