He predicts similar success for his book of anecdotes. I can choose my publisher because it will be such a hit. But, unusually, he is writing his latest book in English, working with an editor in Britain who he says is a senior member of the Labour Party. Again, political correctness is behind it. Once I wrote a book and an editor asked me to change 150 things.
Political correctness is such rubbish.
Above all Spitzy has no fear of controversy. On last year's EU sanctions against Austria, imposed after Haider's party joined a national coalition, he is typically robust. He notably blasts the French EU presidency which spearheaded the embargo. I studied to be a diplomat in France, and I adore the country and my best friends live there. Argument, he concludes, is a fundamentally good thing.