If Wodehouse would have been around in our turbulent and protectionist times, his next whodunit would have surely contained some juicy references to the political environment of the day. Perhaps he would have made Bertie Wooster comment upon Brexit and the US politics in his unique humour-laden manner!
Relish this post on the author’s political comments in ‘Aunts Aren’t Gentlemen’ and elsewhere.
A response to the critic Emsworth
Emsworth, that worthy critic with an equally worthy name, suggests “P.G. Wodehouse had hung on too long when he wrote The Cat-Nappers“ – The Cat-Nappers being an alias for the work known to British readers as Aunts Aren’t Gentlemen. Emsworth provides some good evidence that this 1974 work of a nonagenarian is not Wodehouse at his finest. For those unacquainted with Emsworth’s excellent piece, I suggest reading it for yourself. When my considered response (however unqualified I am to make it) ran to half a page, I decided to post it here instead.
Wodehouse was a careful and proficient editor in the habit of re-working his stories thoroughly until he was satisfied with them. I wonder whether this book received a less scrupulous reworking than Wodehouse was accustomed to. Perhaps Wodehouse felt he was running out of time…
Emsworth’s comments on…
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ashokbhatia 
Hope you a good 2016…Wishing you and your family a wonderful year ahead and peace and happiness…
Looking forward to reading your insightful and well researched post which I missed last year…
😀
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Thank you; wish you the same.
You have come up with a great post on virtual vs real world. Allow me to say that it is leading to extreme toxicity of a different kind!
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Always a pleasure to read your perspective…looking forward to, yes, we are pulled by this two forces in opposite direction, we need the balance…
Thanks so much.
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Somehow, WP did not facilitate my putting in a comment below the post itself. Goes on to prove how much technology challenged I happen to be!
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