Living with Monsters
Ferdinand Mount: PMs v. the Media, 22 April 2010
Where Power Lies: Prime Ministers v. the Media
by Lance Price.
Simon & Schuster, 498 pp., £20, February 2010,978 1 84737 253 6 Show More
by Lance Price.
Simon & Schuster, 498 pp., £20, February 2010,
“... One of the odder political books I have read is The Abuse of Power, by James Margach, the veteran lobby correspondent of the Sunday Times. Published in 1978, the book was subtitled with a flourish: ‘The war between Downing Street and the media from Lloyd George to Callaghan’. For 40 years and more, Margach had enjoyed the confidence of prime ministers ... ”