Mark Vickers writes in a sober, unsensational style, yet produces something surprising or even bizarre on almost every page.
Pundits are scornful, and see “blue on blue” violence, when actually the Conservative Party is holding the necessary national argument.
The Blackpool conference saw various candidates make their case, and an unlikely new leader emerge.
While Blair, Brown and Cameron scuttled off indecorously after leaving Number 10, she remains in the Commons and tries to hold Johnson to account.
All three PMs did about as well as anyone could in the circumstances, and all three, so far as one can see, are doomed.
It is hard to find any precedent for the path that he has chosen. What furies drive him? Why this frantic activity?
This account of three and a half years as a special adviser confirms how trivial and transitory the role can be.
The party is pinned down where it feels at home – in its new heartlands of central London, the middle of major cities and the University towns.
“Winston Churchill is a bastard” – criticism, scrutiny and vulgar abuse are part of living in a free country.
The present election will turn on whether MPs and activists put national popularity before ideological soundness.
It is not the resignation which Tory backbenchers were keenest to see, but it makes the end of May’s prime ministership even more certain.
That’s to say, those of 1950, 1961, 1967 and 1971. Sovereignty was always the key concern, despite arguments over its meaning.
These acts of remembrance may in some slight measure salve grief, and enable those who have not had to endure such things to give thanks for those who do.
His archivist writes that this agreement has succeeded…in recovering powers which some thought had been lost permanently”.