The Berry Scene

I enjoy fiction by authors that I disagree with, like Poul Anderson, but right now Dornford Yates is getting me down:

class-hatred is promoted by self-interested politicians;
Communists are bad people;
the beating up of a Communist is a source of amusement.

As long as it is not too badly affected by climate change, the English countryside remains to be appreciated whether or not society continues to be divided in the way eulogized by Yates.