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Draining the Think Tank

Martin Pugh, 24 November 1988

British Social Trends since 1900: A Guide to the Changing Social Structure of Britain 
edited by A.H. Halsey.
Macmillan, 650 pp., £45, October 1988, 0 333 34521 5
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Inside the Think Tank: Advising the Cabinet 1971-1983 
by Tessa Blackstone and William Plowden.
Heinemann, 258 pp., £14.95, September 1988, 9780434074907
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Lobbying: An Insider’s Guide to the Parliamentary Process 
by Alf Dubs.
Pluto, 228 pp., £12.50, October 1988, 0 7453 0137 1
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... pressure group and constituents. He is the beleaguered hero of a new handbook on Lobbying by Alf Dubs. As the former member for Battersea Mr Dubs brings to his subject the qualifications of a gamekeeper turned poacher. His insider’s advice on how to get at one’s MP when he is most amenable or vulnerable is ...

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