I will only say that I think Keira Knightley, who is not a bad actress necessarily, was the worst Elizabeth Bennet for my money. Except for maybe that 1940s version which was pretty shitty altogether.

And at Peterloo, which was a big mass demonstration in 1819—that’s four years after the war ended—there are veterans of the army both in the crowd of demonstrators and in the cavalry troops that run them down. And it’s significant, I think, that the battle is called Peterloo. It’s in St. Peter’s Square, in…