about to foist a tasteless joke upon the British people – who will not find it funny for long." He has continued along this line of argument throughout the Johnson premiership and he said that "the experiment in celebrity government to which the Conservative Party committed us has failed, and is seen by the world to have failed. The foremost task for a successor is to restore Britain's reputation as a serious country." In his Bloomberg column on 14 February 2021, Hastings wrote that the United Kingdom's future was unlikely to be long-term. He advocated a United Ireland but said he was against Scottish and Welsh independence. Hastings was widely criticised for stating in the article that the Welsh language was of "marginal value" and that Wales could not succeed as an independent country because it was "dependent on English largesse". Huw Edwards said there were several factual errors in Hastings' points, while Fergus Llewelyn Turtle responded: "For the non-English part of the UK that is ... the most integrated with England, it's pretty astonishing how many English commentators have exactly zero political clue about Wales." In March 2021, Hastings wrote that the prospect of a showdown between the United States and China over Taiwan was becoming increasingly likely. Select bibliography Reportage America 1968: The Fire this Time (Gollancz, 1969) Ulster 1969: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Northern Ireland (Gollancz, 1970) The Battle for the Falklands (with Simon Jenkins) (W W Norton, 1983) , (Michael Joseph, 1983) Biography Montrose: The King's Champion (Gollancz, 1977) Yoni: Hero of Entebbe: Life of Yonathan Netanyahu (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1980) Autobiography Going to the Wars (Macmillan, 2000) Editor: A Memoir (Macmillan, 2002) Did You Really Shoot the Television?: A Family Fable (London, HarperPress, 2010) History Bomber Command (Michael Joseph, 1979) The Battle of Britain (with Len Deighton) (Jonathan Cape, 1980) Das Reich: Resistance and the March of the Second SS Panzer Division Through France, June 1944 (Michael Joseph, 1981) , (Henry Holt & Co, 1982) Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy (Simon & Schuster, 1984) Victory in Europe (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1985) (Little Brown & C, 1992) The Korean War (Michael Joseph, 1987) , (Simon & Schuster, 1987) Armageddon: The Battle for Germany 1944–45 (Macmillan, 2004) Warriors: Exceptional Tales from the Battlefield (HarperPress [UK], 2005) Nemesis: The Battle for Japan 1944–45 (HarperPress [UK], October 2007) (re-titled Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944–45