Malcolm Muggeridge est de la famille d'esprit de Chesterton. Comme lui, il a ce don spécifique au génie anglais de saisir la réalité et la vérité avec une grande vigueur de style et cet humour qui est comme l'enveloppe risible des réalités appréhendées.

«Muggeridge is a tonic force, well worth resuscitating. He could be crankish. Sometimes he was downright absurd. But, at least until the last decade of his life, when his powers guttered, he was rarely merely crankish. Often he was incandescently perceptive. Above all he provided an intelligent admonitory voice, a voice against the grain of received opinion, urging caution, broadcasting unwelcome truths, nudging his interlocutors beyond the warm circle of their self-absorption.»