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12 Ireland
1. Pimlott, Harold Wilson, p. 407.
2. Sunday World, 17 March 1985, quoted Bruce, p. 221.
3. ‘In our area we did more or less as we liked…knew all the Roman Catholics and kept close watch on them. Sometimes some of the lads gave them a roughing up–I’m not saying that went on a lot but the politicians never complained then.’ Vox pop quoted Mulholland, p. 62.
4. S. Wilson, p. 40.
5. Bruce, p. 227.
6. Gladstone Papers May 1886. BL Add MS 44772. f. 82 9; Bodganor,p. 19.
7. W. S. Churchill, The World Crisis: The Aftermath, Thornton Butterworth, 1929, p. 319.
8. House of Commons Debates 5th series, Vol. 129, cols 1279–80, 18 May 1920
9. Ibid., cols 1289–90.
10. Callaghan, p. 15.
11. Bruce, p. 196.
12. Ibid., p. 199.
13. Utley, p. 31.
14. Mulholland, p. 78.
15. Stetler, p. 162.
16. The author.
17. Neumann, p. 63.
18. Utley, p. 72.
19. Moloney, pp. 9–10.
13 The 1960s
1. Duncan Staff, The Lost Boy, Bantam Books, 2007, p. 114.
2. Ibid. p. 136.
3. Ibid., p. 141.
4. Pamela Hansford Johnson, On Iniquity, Macmillan, 1967.
5. Matthew xxv: 39.
6. The author.
7. Montagu of Beaulieu, Wheels Within Wheels, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2000, p. 107.
8. Debrett’s Peerage and Baronetage, p. 891.
9. Wikipedia–Wolfenden Report.
10. Wikipedia.
11. Annan, p. 134.
12. Private information.
13. Evelyn Waugh, Decline and Fall, p. 38.
14. American Gay Rights Movement, a Timetable. www.infoplease.com/ipaA0761909/html.
15. John Lahr, ed., The Orton Diaries, Methuen, 1986, p. 251.
16. Joe Orton, Head to Toe, quoted as epigram for John Lahr’s Prick Up Your Ears, Allen Lane, 1978.
17. Lahr, Prick Up Your Ears, p. 95.
18. Lahr, The Orton Diaries, p. 274.
19. Andrew Motion, Philip Larkin: A Writer’s Life, Faber & Faber, 1993,p. 319.
20. Sampson, Anatomy of Britain, p. 216.
21. A. N. Wilson, Betjeman, p. 258.
22. Jonathan Cecil to author.
23. Lahr, Prick Up Your Ears, p. 336.
24. Fact recorded in Recording Industry Association of America, 1999, 11 October, that the Beatles were ‘the best-selling musical act of all time in the United States’.
25. Hunter Davies, The Beatles, Heinemann, 1968, p. 178.
26. Bob Spitz, The Beatles, Little, Brown, 2005, p. 322.
27. Maureen Cleave, ‘How Does a Beatle Live’, Evening Standard, 4 March 1966.
28. Jimmy Perry and David Croft, Dad’s Army, Elm Tree Books, 1975,p. 45.
29. New Statesman, 7 October 1968.
30. Ibid.
14 HeathCo
1. Alan Bennett, Habeas Corpus, Faber & Faber, 1973, p. 14.
2. Ibid., Forty Years On.
3. Ibid., p. 39.
4. Private Eye, No. 65, 6 August 1965.
5. John Campbell, Edward Heath: A Biography, Jonathan Cape, 1993,p. 6.
6. Hugo Young, This Blessed Plot, p. 215.
7. Campbell, Edward Heath, p. 486.
8. Ibid., p. 499.
9. Edward Heath, Music: A Joy for Life, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1976,p. 176.
10. Private Eye, 30 July 1971.
11. Young, This Blessed Plot, p. 232.
12. Ibid., p. 233.
13. Ibid., p. 241.
14. Campbell, Edward Heath, p. 425.
15. Tom Nairn, The Break-up of Britain. Crisis and Neo-Nationalism, New Left Books, 1977, p. 194.
16. Quoted Campbell, Edward Heath, p. 312.
17. Ibid., p. 378.
18. Ibid., p. 379.
19. Robert Blake, The Conservative Opportunity, quoted Morrison Halcrow, Keith Joseph: A Single Mind, Macmillan, 1989, p. 54.
20. Halcrow, Keith Joseph, p. 72.
21. Ibid., p. 74.
15 Women’s Liberation
1. Unless otherwise stated, all information about the Oz trial comes from Grove, A Voyage Round John Mortimer, pp. 246–64.
2. Ibid., p. 247.
3. Annan, p. 146.
4. Grove, p. 255.
5. Powell, p. 18.
6. Elizabeth Roberts, Women and Families: An Oral History 1940–1970, Blackwell, Oxford, 1995.
7. Sheila Rowbotham, A Century of Women: The History of Women in Britain and the United States, Viking, 1997, p. 413.
8. Timmins, 1995, p. 121.
9. Stephen Ingle and Philip Tether, Parliament and Health Policy, Gower, Farnborough, Hampshire, 1981.
10. Morrison Halcrow, Keith Joseph: A Single Mind, Macmillan, 1989,p. 83.
11. Rowbotham, p. 407.
12. Susan Brownmiller, Against Our Will, Secker & Warburg, 1975.
13. Greer, p. 11.
14. Ibid., p. 37.
15. Terry Eagleton, After Theory, Allen Lane, 2003, p. 6.
16. Louise Thondeur, ‘A history of pubic hair, or reviewers’ responses to Terry Eagleton’s After Theory’, in The Last Taboo: Women and Body Hair, edited by Karin Lesnik-Oberstein, Manchester University Press, 2006.
17. Greer, p. 115.
18. Ibid., p. 161.
19. Ibid., p. 219.
20. Ibid., p. 239.
21. Ibid., p. 249.
16 The Decline of the Roman Catholic Church
1. Father Charles-Roux told the author that he had eaten with all the Popes since Pius IX and that John XXIII’s table, and cellar, were prodigious.
2. Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, p. 87.
3. Edwin Brooks, This Crowded Kingdom, C. Knight, 1973, p. 110.
4. Charles Davis, A Question of Conscience, Hodder & Stoughton, 1967, p. 64.
5. Trevor Beeson, Priests and Prelates, Continuum International Publishing Group, 2002, p. 224.
6. Guardian, 6 July 2004.
7. Department of Health Statistics–e.g., in 2005, 186,400.
8. Michael P. Hornsby-Smith, Catholics in England 1950–2000, Cassell, 1999.
9. Ibid., pp. 246–8.
10. Daily Telegraph, 14 July 2007.
11. Hornsby-Smith, p. 65.
12. Peter Doyle, Mires and Missions in Lancashire: The Roman Catholic Diocese of Liverpool 1850–2000, The Bluecoat Press, Liverpool, 2005, p. 72.
13. P. J. Waller, Democracy and Sectarianism: A Political and Social History of Liverpool 1868–1939, Liverpool University Press, Liverpool, 1981, p. 186.
14. Peter Kilfoyle, Left Behind: Lessons from Labour’s Heartland,Politico’s, 2000, p. 3.
15. Ibid., p. 39.
16. Ibid., p. 106.
17. See Frederick Gibberd, Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King,Liverpool, The Architectural Press, London, 1968.
18. Anthony Kenny, A Path from Rome, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1985, p. 43.
17 The End of Harold Wilson
1. Austen Morgan, p. 433.
2. Ziegler, Wilson, p. 468.
3. Ibid., p. 468.
4. Pimlott, Harold Wilson, p. 255.
5. Ibid., pp. 405–6.
6. Ibid., p. 416.
7. Ibid., p. 241. Benn voted for Gaitskell to be leader in 1955.
8. Susan Crosland, p. 210.
9. Donoughue, The Heat of the Kitchen, p. 146.
10. Ziegler, Wilson, p. 417.
11. Ibid., p. 418.
12. DMB, Vol. 6, Oxford University Press, 2004–8, p. 148.
13. Ziegler, Wilson, p. 408.
14. Donoughue, The Heat of the Kitchen, p. 215.
15. Ian Bradley, ed., Iolanthe, Act 1, The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan, Oxford University Press, 1996, p. 375.
16. Donoughue, p. 200.
17. Ibid., p. 194
18. Ibid., p. 195.
19.
Ibid., p. 195.
20. Ibid., p. 195.
21. Ibid., p. 199.
18 Lucky Jim
1. Pimlott, Harold Wilson, p. 491.
2. Ibid., p. 571.
3. Kenneth Morgan, Callaghan, p. 240.
4. John Hoskyns, Just in Time: Inside the Thatcher Revolution, Aurum Press, 2000, p. 89.
5. Benn, p. 114.
6. Hoskyns, p. 92.
7. Morgan, Callaghan, p. 112.
8. Ibid., p. 272.
9. To author.
10. Details of the Thorpe case, unless otherwise stated, from Auberon Waugh, The Last Word.
11. Lambton, p. 71.
12. Ibid., p. 87.
13. Ziegler, Mountbatten, p. 422.
14. Sounes, Seventies, p. 282.
15. Ibid., p. 391.
16. Ronnie Barker, All I Ever Wrote: The Complete Works, Sidgwick &Jackson, 2001, p. 124.
17. Morgan, Callaghan, p. 423.
18. Hugo Young, One of Us, p. 278.
19 ‘This Was a Terrific Battle’
1. Gordon Burn, Somebody’s Husband, Somebody’s Son, William Heinemann, 1984, p. 12.
2. A. N. Wilson The Victorians, Hutchinson, 2002, p. 527.
3. Hugo Young, One of Us, p. 311.
4. Antony Crosland, The Future of Socialism, p. 76.
5. Larkin to author.
6. Ibid.
7. Anthony Thwaite, ed., The Selected Letters of Philip Larkin, Faber& Faber, 1992, p. 701.
8. Larkin to author.
9. Hughes, Collected Poems, p. 222.
10. HMSO, 1981.
11. Scarman Report, p. 14.
12. Ibid., p. 4.
13. Ibid., p. 87.
14. Ibid., p. 5.
15. Young, One of Us, p. 238.
16. OED.
17. Gorer, p. 310.
18. Loader and Mulcahy, p. 70.
19. Ibid., p. 75.
20. Ibid., pp. 4, 22.
21. London, Institute of Race Relations, no date, p. 77.
22. All details of the Blair Peach killing and the Tottenham riots, Bloom, pp. 455 ff.
20 Thatcher as Prime Minister
1. Blake, Conservatism in an Age of Revolution, p. 37.
2. Quoted Des McHale, The World’s Best Maggie Thatcher Jokes,Angus and Robertson, 1989, p. 32.
3. Prior, pp. 13–14.
4. Eleven women of the Protestant Episcopal Church were ordained priests in Philadelphia in 1974. Although it was not until 1992 that the Church of England authorised female ordination, it was widely accepted as desirable at this period.
5. Gilmour, Dancing with Dogma, p. 58.
6. Prior, p. 119.
7. Guardian, 14 June 1979.
8. Hastings, p. 94.
9. Ibid., p. 97.
10. Hugo Young, One of Us, p. 277.
11. Ibid., p. 401.
12. Ingrams and Wells, p. 155.
13. Young, One of Us, p. 282
14. Alan Clark, Diaries, 10 September 1982.
15. Lawson, p. 98.
16. Young, One of Us, p. 324.
17. The Times, 26 June 1984.
18. Keenan, p. 3.
19. Tony Benn, The End of an Era: Diaries 1980–1990, Hutchinson,1992, p. 479.
20. Young, One of Us, p. 370.
21. Quintin Hogg conversation with author mid-1980s.
22. Ingrams and Wells, p. 258.
23. Benn, The End of an Era, p. 380.
24. Alan Clark, Diaries, p. 99.
25. Johnson, p. 95.
26. Ibid., p. 253.
27. Sunday Times, 28 February 1995.
28. Leeson, p. 354.
29. Young, One of Us, p. 411.
30. Watkins, p. 9.
31. Anderson, p. viii.
21 Nice Mr Major
1. Dellheim, p. 141.
2. Edward Pearce, pp. 44–5.
3. Major-Ball, p. 31.
4. Ibid., p. 45.
5. Ibid.
6. Edward Pearce, p.5
7. Ibid., p. 8.
8. Currie, pp. 248–9.
9. Ibid., p. 102.
10. Junor, p. 251.
11. Ibid. p. 266.
12. S. Ludlam, ‘The Spectre Haunting Conservatism’ in Ludlam and Smith, p. 99.
13. Charles II’s taunt to his brother James, when Duke of York.
14. Junor, p. 274.
15. Ibid., p. 267.
16. Guardian, 19 July 2001.
17. Wright and Richardson.
18. Dimbleby, p. 493.
22 Prince Charles and Lady Di
1. Krin, p. 15.
2. Dimbleby, p. 237.
3. Ibid., pp. 316–17.
4. Ceremonial, p. 32.
5. Brandreth, p. 46.
6. Ibid., p. 178.
7. Ibid., p. 205.
8. Tina Brown, The Diana Chronicles, Century, 2007, p. 124.
9. Ibid.
10. Ibid., p. 412.
11. Quoted ibid., p. 166.
12. Ibid., p. 414.
13. Carpenter, Robert Runcie, p. 221.
23 The Union
1. Mulholland, p. 93.
2. John Davies, p. 644.
3. Ibid., p. 591.
4. Ibid., p. 595.
5. The Times, 2 July 1966.
6. Ibid., 16 July 1966, p. 10.
7. John Davies, p. 680.
8. The Times, 28 October 1998.
9. Ibid., p. 1.
10. Ibid., 21 June 1998, p. 3.
11. Ibid., 4 November 1998, p.23.
12. Ibid., 28 August 1999, p. 3.
13. T. M. Devine, The Scottish Nation, 1700–2000, Allen Lane, 1999.
14. Bogdanor, p. 132.
15. Devine, p. 615.
16. Bogdanor, p. 228.
17. Devine, p. 261.
18. Peter Lynch, SNP: A History of the Scottish National Party, Welsh Academic Press, Cardiff, 2002, p. 197.
19. Clarke and Johnson, p. 188.
20. Dillon, p. 432.
24 Stephen Lawrence
1. Seldon, Major, p. 131.
2. Ibid., p. 29.
3. Cherry and Pevsner, p. xvi.
4. Ibid., p. 330.
5. Ibid., p. 421.
6. Cathcart, p. 21.
7. Lawrence, p. 21.
8. Ibid., p. 24.
9. Cathcart, p. 71
10. Lawrence, p. 171.
11. Daily Mail, 14 February 1997.
12. Lawrence, p. 173.
13. Cathcart, pp. 184, 185, 203, 362.
14. Ibid., p. 405.
15. Lawrence, p. 74.
16. The Times, 15 February 2008.
17. Commission on the Future of Multi-Ethnic Britain, Profile Books, 2000, p. viii.
18. Ibid., p. x.
19. Ibid., p. 88.
20. Ibid., p. 58.
21. Ibid., p. 63.
22. Ibid., p. 146.
23. Ibid., p. 132.
24. Ibid., p. 323, quoting Ben Okri.
25. Ibid., p. 14.
26. Ibid., p. 18.
27. Ibid., p. 16.
28. Ibid., p. 159.
25 New Labour
1. Schofield information–Wikipedia.
2. Tony Blair’s tribute to Edward Heath in the Commons, July 2005.
3. Private information.
4. In a speech given to a dinner of the Trollope Society.
5. Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, p. 122.
6. Evening Standard, 28 January 2008.
7. Beckett and Hencke, p. 273.
8. Quoted ibid., p. 279.
9. Paul Scott, p. 162.
10. Ibid., p. 149.
11. Ibid., p. 150.
12. The Times, 28 March 1989.
13. Rentoul, Tony Blair, p. 555.
14. Julia Dawkins, p. 1.
15. Nicolson, p. 249.
16. Rentoul, Tony Blair, p. 556.
17. Quoted Riddell, The Unfulfilled Prime Minister, p. 33.
18. Rohde, p. 219.
19. Rentoul, Tony Blair
, p. 442.
26 Tony’s Wars
1. Kampfner, p. 31.
2. Ibid., p. 35.
3. Ibid., p. 44.
4. Quoted Coates, p. 11.
5. The Times, 14 March 2008.
6. Seldon, Blair, p. 84.
7. Ibid., p. 137.
8. John Keegan, The Iraq War, Knopf, New York, 2004, p. 111.
9. Independent, 4 March 2008.
10. Keegan, p. 204.
11. The comparison is made by Patrick Cockburn, The Occupation, Verso, 2007, p. 82.
12. Ibid., p. 7.
13. Ibid., p. 4.
14. Seldon, Blair, p. 220.
15. Henry Porter, Observer, 5 November 2006.
27 Islamists
1. The Times, 7, 9, 12 November 2007.
2. Daily Telegraph, 4 December 1993.
3. Ibid., p. 108.
4. The Times, 8 July 2005.
5. Keith Warner (director) to author.
6. Phillips, p. 280.
7. Burleigh, p. 117.
8. Ibid., p. 213.
9. Ed Husain, The Islamist, Penguin Books, 2007, p. 173 and passim.
10. Ibid., p. 216.
11. Daily Telegraph, 7 August 2007.
28 The Return of God
1. Spurling, p. 509.
2. The Economist, ‘In God’s Name: A Special Report on Religion and Public Life’, 3 November 2007.
3. Larkin, p. 190, ‘Aubade’.
4. Wikipedia, and Debrett’s Peerage and Baronetage, Macmillan, 1995,p. 90.
5. Ralph Barton Perry, The Thought and Character of William James, Vol. II, Little, Brown, Boston, 1933, p. 33.
6. William James, Writings, 1902–1910, The Library of America, New York, 1987, p. 435.
7. Sanderson of Oundle, p. 205.
8. Ibid., p. 194.
9. Ibid., p. 202.
10. Ibid., p. 211.
11. Ibid., p. 216.
12. Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion, p. 217.
13. See Hitchens, p. 183.
14. Sanderson of Oundle, p. 217.
15. ‘The Cosmic Sadist, the spiteful imbecile’. The images occur in C. S. Lewis writing as N. W. Clerk, A Grief Observed, Faber & Faber,p. 27.
16. Weil, p. 227.
17. Ibid., p. 229.
18. Ibid., p. 230.
19. Ibid., p. 231.
29 Gordon Brown
1. Rawnsley, p. 76.
2. Gibbon, p. 236.
3. Giddens, p. 95.
4. Daily Telegraph, 17 February 2008.
5. Whitaker’s Almanack.
6. Daily Telegraph, 4 January 2008.
7. www.streetdrugs.org.
8. Daily Telegraph, 7 February 2008.
9. Mike and Trevor Phillips, p. 201.
10. Alan Clark, Diaries, Vol. 2, Into Politics, p. 198.
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