Showing posts with label Harold Macmillan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Harold Macmillan. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 25, 2025

Downing Street Downfalls: The Misadventures of Britain’s Prime Minister Since Thatcher by Mark Garnett

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Downing Street Downfalls: The Misadventures of Britain’s Prime Minister Since Thatcher Mark Garnett Agenda, 2025, £20 It’s not a novelty for...
Friday, January 10, 2025

An interview with Carl Cashman, leader of the Lib Dem group on Liverpool City Council

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Read on Substack Follow the link to Substack to hear Aaron Ellis interviewing Carl Cashman, leader of the Liberal Democrat group on Liverpoo...
Wednesday, April 24, 2024

GUEST POST In old age a shared past is rich and comforting

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The Secret Support Worker discusses what older people in care homes need to thrive - and what they are given. Well, gentle reader, I did it...
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Friday, November 11, 2022

Harold Macmillan on why Oswald Mosley failed

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Embed from Getty Images From Julian Critchley's memoirs A Bag of Boiled Sweets , published in 1994: Macmillan greeted me gravely, and we...
Tuesday, December 08, 2020

Brexit is the fools' revenge on Harold Macmillan

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Visiting Julian Critchley's grave at Wistanstow in Shropshire, I quoted an interview he once gave to Naim Attallah : "I had two he...
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Saturday, May 27, 2017

Harold Macmillan on Oswald Mosley's uniform

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Embed from Getty Images Marina Hyde , in her demolition of Katie Hopkins, quotes P.G. Wodehouse's immortal paragraph on Roderi...
Sunday, April 16, 2017

Theresa May is the opposite of Harold Macmillan

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Embed from Getty Images Writing about Julian Critchley after visiting his grave at Wistanstow, I quoted an interview he gave to ...
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Sunday, January 20, 2013

Julian Critchley's grave at Wistanstow

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The churchyard at Wistanstow is probably not the site of the martyrdom of St Wystan , but it does contain the grave of one of my favourite...
Thursday, June 14, 2012

Kenneth Clarke and Lord Bonkers on the way newspapers have changed

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In his evidence to Lord Leveson's Inquiry, the Guardian reminds us, Kenneth Clarke recalled his days as a student Conservative, when ...