In his brilliant new work Dinshaw shows how friends fell out in the 1640s.
Cruddas foresaw a year ago that it would be “difficult to identify the purpose of a Starmer government”.
He has an immense appetite for stories, and politicians talk to him because he tries to report with reasonable fidelity what they say.
The former Chairman of the 1922 Committee points out that the 2010-15 coalition could seek no improvement in Britain’s relations with the EU.
Johnson may not be as amusing as Disraeli, but he is without doubt the funniest and most literate PM since Macmillan.
He reported the weakness of the British Establishment when faced by Hitler.
A new book gives too much credit to the Conservatives as they strove to develop new policies for 1945.
He denounces his opponents rather than working out how to win them over.
Wheatcroft contends in his new book that the prophecy he made in 2005 may yet come to pass.
Her reign was like a grand but comic opera crammed with unexpected changes of fortune.
She not only failed to find the words to win round her Tory opponents: she did not even seem to realise this was necessary.
The authors are entitled to their dismal view of Britain’s recent past, but it does not strike one as a conservative view.
The author recalls the high hopes with which Blair entered power in 1997, and the extreme difficulty of devising a viable European policy.
This history of the Labour Party brings out its religious origins, and its role in filling the gap left by the decline of the churches.