Wilsonia

Paul Foot

  • The Wilson Plot: The Intelligence Services and the Discrediting of a Prime Minister by David Leigh
    Heinemann, 271 pp, £12.95, November 1988, ISBN 0 434 41340 2
  • A Price too High by Peter Rawlinson
    Weidenfeld, 284 pp, £16.00, March 1989, ISBN 0 297 79431 0

Many years ago, I was one of many journalists who set sail with high hopes in search of an undiscovered country called Wilsonia. It beckoned from afar across mighty oceans of investigations and tip-offs. The lucky journalist to reach it first would be rewarded with arguably the greatest political scoop of our time: he or she would finally reveal why Harold Wilson, to the astonishment of the entire political and journalistic world, suddenly took himself off to obscurity.

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