The writing quality in this article would suggest he is indeed a pretty poor hack. I'd be embarrassed to call myself a professional author if this is how i wrot

The writing quality in this article would suggest he is indeed a pretty poor hack. I'd be embarrassed to call myself a professional author if this is how i wrote > Like all scientific laws, Thatcher’s has exceptions. Britain has not really “always been” in Europe, because there has not always been a Europe to be in. Our planet has existed for 4.6 billion years, but shifting continental plates only began creating what we now call Europe about 200 million years ago. - a "scientifc law" (nope!) you invented in the previous paragraph predicated on a blatantly incorrect interpretation of a statement someone made about something unrelated to whatever you are talking about > Britain has not really “always been” in Europe, because there has not always been a Europe to be in. Our planet has existed for 4.6 billion years, but shifting continental plates only began creating what we now call Europe about 200 million years ago. - North America was also in Pangea. So what? I can't tell if this is failed wit or failed attempts at engineering some kind of moral highground based on geography? All that before you mention the pompous political shoehorning. I should have kept the writing up if this meets a publisher's standards