Contents

Acknowledgements

 

Introduction

Part One Churchill and Eden

1 Old Western Man

2 Space and Spies

3 Other Gods

4 A Portrait of Decay

5 Suez

Part Two Macmillan

6 Supermac

7 Mental Health and Suicides

8 Lady Chatterley and Honest to God

9 Profumo and After

Part Three A Fourteenth Earl and a Fourteenth Mr Wilson

10 Enemies of Promise

11 The 14th Mr Wilson

12 Ireland

13 The 1960s

Part Four The 1970s

14 HeathCo

15 Women’s Liberation

16 The Decline of the Roman Catholic Church

17 The End of Harold Wilson

18 Lucky Jim

Part Five The Lady

19 ‘This Was a Terrific Battle’

20 Thatcher as Prime Minister

Part Six Mr Major’s Britain

21 Nice Mr Major

22 Prince Charles and Lady Di

23 The Union

24 Stephen Lawrence

Part Seven The Project

25 New Labour

26 Tony’s Wars

27 Islamists

28 The Return of God

29 Gordon Brown

 

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