Post-Bourgeois Man

Peter Jenkins

  • Arguments for Democracy by Tony Benn, edited by Chris Mullin
    Cape, 257 pp, £6.95, September 1981, ISBN 0 224 01878 7
  • Manifesto by Francis Cripps, John Griffith, Frances Morrell, Jimmy Reid and Peter Townsend
    Pan, 224 pp, £1.95, September 1981, ISBN 0 330 26402 8

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’.

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