The Spectator

Letters to the Editor | 4 March 2006

issue 04 March 2006

Genghis was a leftie

From Daniel Hannan, MEP
Sir: Paul Johnson demolishes the ludicrous expression ‘to the right of Genghis Khan’ and wonders what the Mongol leader’s true politics might have been (And another thing, 25 February). I’d have thought Genghis was a clear-cut leftie. His tactic, on conquering a tribe, was to liquidate the aristocracy and elevate the lower orders.


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