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In his review of Playboys and Mayfair Men: Crime, Class, Masculinity, and Fascism in 1930s London, by Angus McLaren (Books, 23?November), Clive Bloom writes that ¡°¡­the Mayfair men finally atoned for their sins¡­in the cockpit of a Spitfire¡±. If that is really true, then doesn¡¯t the winning of the Battle of Britain as a vital holding action in the eventual defeat of mid-20th century fascism mean that we owe our freedoms today, in part, to their unbridled wildness?

What then does this suggest for today¡¯s political correctness, ¡°safe?spaces¡± and proliferating sensitivities¡­?

Paul G. Ellis
Business school tutor
London

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