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During a long career in journalism, Andy McSmith encountered Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in a Siberian town called Bratsk, dined with Sir Edward Heath in his home in Salisbury, was mugged in the street while visiting Moscow with John Major, and knew Boris Johnson as a colleague with an ambition to be something more than just a journalist.

Affable, invisible... the man with a brilliant future behind him.' Thus Varsity magazine appraised Kenneth Clarke's term as President of the Cambridge Union in the summer of 1963. Dominated by his opposition to the admission of women students to the Union, Clarke's Presidency had been less than distinguished. But Varsity, like so many commentators throughout Clarke's political career, seriously underestimated a politician who, three decades la...

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Updated since the May 1997 election, this book gives an insight into a range of Labour politicans - including, Tony Blair, John Prescott, Peter Mandelson and Clare Short - in a series of portraits.

¿He was surrounded on every side by those who wanted to be. Some wanted to be famous, some to be praised, some to be on television every night, some to be outstandingly loyal, some to be famously disloyal, some to be driven by chauffeurs in ministerial cars and some to be Prime Minister. They were breathing down his neck and pressing against his sides, but Joseph Pilgrim’s life had been so full of what he wanted to do that he had never applied...

Journalist Any McSmith brings together the stories of artists who worked at great risk during Stalinist Russia, one of the most oppressive regimes in world history.

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