political biography
At the beginning of the second world war, Winston Churchill seemed a most unlikely hero
His early directives at the Admiralty and his handling of the Norway campaign exasperated his war cabinet colleagues and might even have ended his political career
Is Keir Starmer really Morgan McSweeney’s puppet?
Two lobby journalists portray the PM as the pawn of ‘the Irishman’ and as ‘a passenger on a train driven by others’ – but there is much more to Starmer than that
Mission accomplished
Nigel Farage was never even an MP, but Michael Crick argues convincingly that he is one of the top five…
A great public servant
This is a strange but valuable book. The author is a private equity magnate, whose fascination for Richard Burdon Haldane…
Driving force
Alan Johnson pays tribute to Ernest Bevin, a towering political figure too often forgotten
