Nanny knows best

Michael Stewart

  • Kinnock by Michael Leapman
    Unwin Hyman, 217 pp, £11.95, May 1987, ISBN 0 04 440006 3
  • The Thatcher Years: A Decade of Revolution in British Politics by John Cole
    BBC, 216 pp, £12.95, April 1987, ISBN 0 563 20572 5
  • Thatcherism and British Politics: The End of Consensus? by Dennis Kavanagh
    Oxford, 334 pp, £22.50, March 1987, ISBN 0 19 827522 6
  • The New Right: The Counter-Revolution in Political, Social and Economic Thought by David Green
    Wheatsheaf, 238 pp, £22.50, March 1987, ISBN 0 7450 0127 0

Let us begin with Kinnock, in order, so to speak, to get him out of the way. If one’s view is that Neil Kinnock is a good man in a position made impossible by historical developments, one will not find much in either Michael Leapman’s sympathetic and readable portrait, or John Cole’s lively and good-humoured canter over the events of the last decade, to change one’s mind.

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