Simon Heffer

The art of political biography remains in intensive care if Giles Radice’s latest book is anything to go by, says Simon Heffer

Reading accounts of the New Labour years in Giles Radice’s Odd Couples is rather like touring an abattoir before the cleaners have been in

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  • Odd Couples: The Great Political Pairings of Modern Britain

    Giles Radice

    I.B. Tauris, pp. 304

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