Ernest Bevin
Why the General Strike of 1926 could never succeed
Most Britons were content with their lot and could not be mobilised to revolution, while divisions in the TUC itself betrayed a lack of commitment to the cause
A rum encounter
For many years, the Central American republic of Guatemala had a grievance against the United Kingdom. It claimed sovereignty over…
Punch and Judy politics
With the odd exception — I think principally of Charles Moore’s life of Margaret Thatcher — the genre of political…
