Questionably Virtuous
Stuart Middleton: Harold Wilson, 8 September 2016
Harold Wilson: The Unprincipled Prime Minister? Reappraising Harold Wilson
edited by Andrew Crines and Kevin Hickson.
Biteback, 319 pp., £20, March 2016,978 1 78590 031 0 Show More
edited by Andrew Crines and Kevin Hickson.
Biteback, 319 pp., £20, March 2016,
“... the bloody man plays golf!’ While serious interest in the question posed by Andrew Crines and Kevin Hickson’s book – whether Wilson was ‘unprincipled’ – has long since been exhausted, what remains intriguing is the way in which his foibles, the hypocrisy and evasion that marked his premierships, were connected to broader processes that ... ”