Less than a fortnight after becoming Prime Minister, Winston Churchill imprisoned a man for being wrong. Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Union of Fascists, was interned under Defence Regulation 18B used to silence anti-war agitators – Irish republicans, pacifists and, as in Mosely’s case, Nazi sympathizers.

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My debut novel is available at TrossPublishing.co.nz. I have had my work published in the Australian Spectator, the New Zealand Herald and several on-line publications. One of the only right-wing people...