The Doctrine of Unripe Time
Ferdinand Mount: The Fifties, 16 November 2006
Having It So Good: Britain in the Fifties
by Peter Hennessy.
Allen Lane, 740 pp., £30, October 2006,0 7139 9571 8 Show More
by Peter Hennessy.
Allen Lane, 740 pp., £30, October 2006,
“... might have taken the heat out of the situation. Shortly after leaving Number Ten, Churchill told Ian Gilmour that immigration from the West Indies was ‘the most important subject facing this country but I cannot get any of my ministers to take any notice’ – although quite a few were no keener on Britain becoming ‘a magpie nation’ than Churchill ... ”