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“... war into the North. Following his election victory in October that year, Wilson was advised by the Foreign Office that, with regard to Vietnam, ‘ministers should agree to support the United States in this limited and controlled form of offensive action.’ He appears to have acceded to this advice at first, noting in February 1965 that ‘Her ...”

“... commonly known as ‘the Treaty’, which gave the 26-county unit Dominion status in the Commonwealth. De Valera rejected the Treaty but was defeated in the Dáil on 7 January 1922, whereupon he resigned, and was replaced by Griffith as President of the Dáil Government. A week later a Provisional Government of the Irish Free State was established ...”

“... self-government (for the whites) for thirty years. In London it came (nominally) under the Commonwealth Relations Office, which otherwise looked after places like Australia and Canada. Nyasaland and Northern Rhodesia, on the other hand, were ruled by the more paternalistic Colonial ...”

“... the right of veto over some Community legislation. They extend the Commission’s term of office to five years, to coincide with that of the Parliament; and although Commission members will still be appointed by the national governments acting together, this will follow investiture by the Parliament – thus possibly foreshadowing embryonic ...”

“... its own press, but the claim of Labour antisemitism wasn’t effectively dealt with.* Corbyn’s office hoped the problem would go away, but it never did. Social networks were filled with rubbish from provocateurs. Press reports suggested that British Jews were planning to leave the country if Corbyn was elected. Internal Labour investigations revealed ...”

“... old Teddy’ with his ‘fast beautiful women and beautiful fast horses’ to ‘a vital Commonwealth conference’ with our present queen couched in her mother’s womb. Then with Chapter Two and a quotation from Yeats which reflects his ogling of great houses – to give it a certain pasteboard splendour – we get to the first four years of the ...”

“... Flo was left in relative poverty. He was unsparingly hardworking to the end. In his last years as foreign secretary, suffering from severe angina and unable to walk upstairs – at the Colombo Conference in 1950, he had to be carried up on a palanquin – he still started work on his red boxes at 4.30 a.m. Adonis gives full credit to all Bevin’s ...”

“... which was attacked in 1988, they killed 70 people, smashed the water supply, set fire to the post office, ransacked the hospital and vandalised the school. In July 1987, they rolled into Homoine and massacred 400 civilians. Government infrastructure, including transport and communications, is a prime Renamo target. By the end of 1986 the rebels had demolished ...”

“... Air Force stations: a cosmetic disguise intended to alleviate local hostility to the presence of foreign military forces on British soil in peacetime. The proposal was accepted, and on this footing almost all American bases in Britain are described as ‘RAF’ bases, and have an RAF ‘commander’. These ‘commanders’ – Squadron Leaders who are two or ...”

“... prerogative body composed today of about seven hundred holders and former holders of high public office, has shrunk for practical reasons to the token function of proclaiming the successor to the throne. Into the resulting void have stepped successive governments, giving the cabinet and its ministers, in the capacity of privy counsellors, regular private ...”

“... and the toxic. It was already agreed by almost everybody that recent rates of immigration from the Commonwealth had been too steep for Britain easily to absorb, socially and economically. That had been the rationale for the Commonwealth Immigrants Act of 1962, and for the further restrictions imposed by the 1968 Act, which ...”

“... Batang Kali some obscene reflections of older failures. The British authorities and the Colonial Office knew that a stable ‘Malayan’ nation could not be created and brought towards self-government while the enormous Chinese immigrant population was excluded from citizenship – treated as if it did not exist. And yet they themselves shared much of the ...”

“... and by 1997 a concomitant population increase to 11.8 million, but Mugabe’s policies frightened foreign investors away and created social stagnation, an ever growing pool of unemployment and increasing political discontent. As the population soared above 15 million or so in 2000 the regime’s inability to provide for its people became all too evident. A ...”

“... and threatened by the ever-growing power of the trade unions. This policy was almost as foreign to the traditions of her own party as it was to her opponents. Hitherto, Stephenson says, she had ‘never shown signs of being a particularly original thinker’ and on ‘economic policy she had at that stage no views as all’. However, this deficiency ...”

“... it was Britain’s ‘earnest desire’, he said, to give South Africa, a fellow member of the Commonwealth, its ‘support and encouragement’, ‘some aspects of your policies … make it impossible for us do this.’ ‘Our policy,’ he added, quoting a speech made by his foreign secretary, Selwyn Lloyd, to the ...”