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Don't get me started on that . . . George MacDonald Fraser abhors asylum-seekers, gays and scruffs. He even hates Flashman, the hero of his books. Is there anything about Britain he does like? Emily Bearn attempts to find out

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From: The Sunday Telegraph London
Date: 20050320
Author:By EMILY BEARN

Before setting off to meet George MacDonald Fraser, I was warned that he is terrifyingly reactionary -- not so much part of the Old School, it is said, as part of the school they knocked down when the Old School was built. If I wanted to return home unscathed, I'd be advised to keep any reservations about the death penalty strictly to myself, and to steer clear of sensitive issues such as asylum- seekers (he's ``dead against them'') and women in the Army (he thinks they should all go back to the Wrens).

When I finally sit down with him at the bar of a golfing hotel near his home on the Isle ...

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