William Cook, “How Napoleon won at Waterloo”, in The Spectator (online edition, 5th July 2014).
“…Naturally, in France Napoleon is still revered. Had Britain produced such a military maestro, we'd probably forgive his many flaws. It's elsewhere in the eurozone that his veneration is so intriguing. These were countries that he conquered, at the cost of almost a million men, but in the lands he bled white there's no sense that he's despised. In Britain he's a pantomime villain. In the Low Countries he's a sort of Caesar. He personifies the growing division between Britain and the EU…”