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One’s Rather Obvious Duty

Paul Smith

  • Stanley Baldwin: Conservative Leadership and National Values by Philip Williamson

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Paul Smith’s edition of Bagehot’s English Constitution came out this year.

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Meritocracy v. Democracy
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This Way to the Ruin
David Runciman on the British Constitution

Short Cuts
John Sturrock: Blair’s Convictions

The Rise and Fall of Thatcherism
Peter Clarke: eight years after

Little Mercians
Ian Gilmour on why Kenneth Clarke should lead the Tories