[1] Brogan began his career in journalism by writing for the Glasgow University magazine and the Scottish schoolmasters' periodical.
published in 1943, he promoted the idea that political ideologies of the Left were responsible for the rise to power of Adolf Hitler.
After his death, The Times described Brogan as: one of the few journalists and pamphleteers of the Welfare era to assail the idols and institutions of the Left with the same zest and skill that Socialist intellectuals devoted to personalities and policies of the Right.
It was disconcerting to conventional Tories to discover an ally contemptuous of the Crown, but Brogan conformed to no class-image.
In the first postwar years he rapidly turned out anonymous colloquial leaflets addressed to working-class readers.