I could be literally rolling in money if I had gotten obsessed with the Regency at a tender age and churned out Regency romances in an unbroken succession since 2014, when I first tried my hand at published novels. I could be Scrooge Mc-freaking-duck!

There seems to be genuinely no bottom to Stalin's awfulness, which may account for the hypnotic effect of Stalinist Russia? The combination of evil and eye-watering incompetence is mind-boggling.