This book will delight many of those who see the Brexit PM as a disgrace.
The odd thing about this author and his Guardian friends is that they cannot understand movement. Though they think of themselves as progressive, they are in many ways deeply reactionary.
When British politics falls into the hands of trendy university graduates, the working class looks to untrendy leaders – Thatcher, Johnson – for salvation.
Positive ideas of empire which in recent decades almost no one dared to express are emerging once more into public discourse.
Under Blair, the party rejected its own traditions and signed up instead to the global, liberal economic order.
She was not an easy person to contradict and no one in her circle made the argument against unfunded tax cuts.
Mark Vickers writes in a sober, unsensational style, yet produces something surprising or even bizarre on almost every page.
The author compares politics to a game of snakes and ladders, but demonstrates that it is actually far harder than that.
The former Health Secretary fails to propose any way in which patients and their families can stop thinking of themselves as supplicants.
It seldom occurs to this author that the best way to deal with fashionable absurdities is to laugh at them, and trust in the public’s common sense.
Hannah White, of the Institute for Government, refers in passing to “the UK’s infamous ‘unwritten’ constitution”. What is “infamous” about it?
He is a liberal on the run, never stopping for long enough in one place to be pinned down, but soaring instead into the higher platitudes.
The UKIP leader spotted the opportunity to attack the pious Establishment from a reactionary rather than a progressive direction.