The Joylessness of a Conservative Activist Author

I don't think Britain handles iconoclasts very well, and it particularly doesn't handle bombastic ones. America has a much higher tolerance for outsized personalities. People liked my sense of mischief and they liked the fact that I was always smiling. It's unusual to see somebody talking about really serious things who is the subject of the most extraordinary and relentless abuse but nonetheless is always smiling. And I have always been that person, I've never stopped, not in 2017, 18 or today.