It was the new, modern, undeferential Britain that celebrated Diana as a rebel against authority, scandalizing those who still clung to Victorian ideas of order.
D'Amato's fund-raising muscle and party control in delegate-rich New York are especially helpful to Bob Dole, a longtime ally who values D'Amato's direct, undeferential style.
David learned his undeferential ways first as editor of Isis, the student magazine at Oxford, then as an interviewer for the BBC in the provinces.