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“... He has come a long way. Born the Hon. Anthony Wedgwood Benn, he inevitably became by public-school nickname ‘Wedgie’ and later, by his own socialist deed-poll, plain ‘Tony Benn’. Today he is more often referred to simply as Benn – a hard word spat out like ‘Lenin’. Benn puzzles and alarms people because he is at the same time frightfully English and frighteningly un-English ...”

“... Robert Kee (Hamish Hamilton, 1986) Error of Judgment: The Truth About the Birmingham Bombings by Chris Mullin (Chatto, 1986) The Fall of Scotland Yard by Barry Cox, John Shirley and Martin Short (Penguin, 1977) The Politics of the Police by Robert Reiner (second edition, Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1992) In the Office of Constable by Sir Robert Mark ...”