Review
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Audacious – but fundamentally flawed
Review of Paddy Ashdown, The Ashdown Diaries, Volume 1: 1988-1997 (Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 2000).
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250 High Streets later…
Review of Mark D’Arcy & Rory Maclean, Nightmare! The Race to Become London’s Mayor (Politico’s Publishing, 2000).
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New leader, new book
Review of Charles Kennedy, The Future of Politics (HarperCollins, 2000).
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More mirage than vision
Review of Garry Tregidga, The Liberal Party in South-West Britain since 1918: Political Decline, Dormancy and Rebirth (University of Exeter Press, 2000).
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Unremembered – but not forgotten
Review of G. W. Keeton James, A Liberal Attorney-General; Being the Life of Lord Robson of Jesmond, 1852-1918, with an Account of the Office of Attorney-General, etc. (Nisbet & Co, 1949).
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I blame Sir Edward Grey
Review of John Charmley, Splendid Isolation? Britain and the Balance of Power 1874-1914 (Hodder & Stoughton, 1999).
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Last of the Gang…
Review of Bill Rodgers, Fourth Among Equals (Politico’s Publishing, 2000).
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Whigs, Liberals and History
Review of Victor Feske, From Belloc to Churchill: Private scholars, public culture and the crisis of British Liberalism, 1900-1939 (University of North Carolina Press, 1996).
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Neville Chamberlain: Policy Wonk
Review of Graham Stewart, Burying Caesar: Churchill, Chamberlain and the Battle for the Tory Party (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1999).