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Richard Briand Articles

The British General Election of 2015

The Nuffield guides to general elections, published since 1945, has become to psephologists and political historians what Wisden is to cricket enthusiasts and Baedeker is to travel enthusiasts. This latest volume does not disappoint, not least in its lively and...

Self-deprecating but ready to settle scores

Jack Straw, Last Man Standing: Memoirs of a Political Survivor, Macmillan, £20 In one moment in this book, Jack Straw recounts how he told the cabinet that meeting Tim Berners-Lee was like meeting the man who invented the wheel, only for Ed Miliband to reduce those...

The Spicer Diaries

Although the title of this book is a deliberate reference to the Crossman Diaries, it is more reminiscent of Chris Mullin’s recent three volumes of diaries. Like Mullin, and unlike Crossman, Spicer never reached the cabinet, but – like Mullin – he served in numerous...

The British general election of 2010

One of the highlights for politics junkies of any general election is not just staying up all night to watch the results, but also reading the Nuffield college guide published shortly thereafter. This latest volume, part of a series which has covered every postwar British general election, does not disappoint.

Self-deprecating but ready to settle scores

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