Early in the morning of 4 March 2015, a fierce knock at the door heralded the start of a new chapter in Harvey Proctor's almost continuous relationship with the police and media, when officers from the Metropolitan Police raided his home in connection with Operation Midland, Scotland Yard's investigation into allegations of a historic Westminster paedophile ring.In Credible and True - words famously used by the police to describe the allegations of Proctor's traducer - the former Conservative MP talks frankly about his life in and out of Parliament, from the struggles and controversy surrounding his resignation in 1987 to the numerous homophobic attacks endured since - one of which, revealed here in horrific detail for the first time, was a very nearly successful attempt on his life.Finally, he speaks candidly about his most recent embroilment in Operation Midland, of being the victim of a 'homosexual witch-hunt' that has all but destroyed his reputation, adding to the topical debate about police lack of due process in the post-Savile world of 'guilty until proven innocent'.

Credible and True: The Political and Personal Memoir of K. Harvey Proctor

Biographies & Memoirs

Harvey Proctor

Leaders & Notable People

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Sir Malcolm Rifkind's political career has been as glittering as it has been long-lived. Indeed, as a minister for eighteen years, he has seen longer uninterrupted service than anyone since Lord Palmerston in the early nineteenth century.In both the Foreign Office and the Ministry of Defence, during some of the most turbulent years of the late twentieth century, he had a ringside seat at Margaret Thatcher's historic summit with President Gorbachev, was in charge of British troops during the Bosnian conflict, helped change Polish history during the Cold War, and held secret negotiations on the Falklands with the Argentinians. For his robustness against the Kremlin's aggression in Ukraine, he is currently banned from Russia by President Putin.Now, from the man himself, comes the inside story of all those affairs and more. From Rifkind's battles with Margaret Thatcher over Scotland to his five pivotal years as chairman of the Intelligence and Security Committee, overseeing GCHQ, working with MI6, meeting the CIA, Power and Pragmatism is the shrewd, humorous and frank memoir of a genuine political heavyweight.

Power and Pragmatism

History

Malcolm Rifkind

Europe

In this incisive, clear-sighted portrait, award-winning Financial Times journalist John Plender explores the paradoxes and pitfalls inherent in this extraordinarily dynamic mechanism, and in our attitudes to it. Taking us on a journey from the Venetian merchants of the Renaissance to the gleaming temples of 21st-century commerce, Plender views capitalism through the eyes of philosophers, novelists, poets, artists and economists.

Capitalism: Money, Morals and Markets

Business & Money

Plender, John

Business Culture

Men are brilliant. Being a man is brilliant—except for penile dysmorphia, circumcision, becoming a weekend father, military conscription, critics who've been hating on us for . . . well, pretty much fifty years—oh, and those pesky early deaths.
Fortunately, Peter Lloyd is here to tackle controversial topics in this fearless bloke bible, part blistering polemic, part politically incorrect road map for the modern man.
Peter Lloyd is a journalist at the Mail on Sunday and MailOnline, while also contributing to the Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mirror. He was formerly the staff writer at Madonna's UK PR company, and his clients included Russell Brand, Robert Plant, and Rufus Wainwright.

Stand by Your Manhood: A Survival Guide for the Modern Man

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Lloyd, Peter

Men's Health

Call Me Dave: The Unauthorised Biography of David Cameron

MIchael Ashcroft

Isabel Oakeshott

Whether told in the rugby clubs of Wales or the gentlemen's clubs of London, their sharpness and simplicity unites us all. Short, sweet and wickedly clever, they hold a special place in the annals of comedy, and as the rise of Twitter heralds a resurrection of the art form, there seems no better time to celebrate the immortal one-liner.  In this book, Times diary columnist Grant Tucker does just that, bringing together 5,000 of the funniest one-liners ever told in one definitive volume. Laugh-out-loud funny, 5,000 Great One-Liners has all the quips, zingers, puns and wisecracks you'll ever need - and a whole lot more.  My mate told me that I just don't understand irony. Which was ironic because we were at a bus stop at the time.  ---  A dyslexic man walks into a bra.  ---  An onion just told me a joke. I don't know whether to laugh or cry.  ---  A priest, a rabbi and a blind man walk into a bar and the bartender says, 'What is this, some kind of joke?'  ---  I got chatting to a lumberjack in a pub. He seemed like a decent feller.  ---  A neutron walks into a bar and says to the barman, 'How much for a pint?' To which the barman replies, 'For you, no charge.' ---  I'll never forget what my granddad said to me just before he kicked the bucket. He said, 'Grandson, how far do you think I can kick this bucket?'

5,000 Great One Liners

Literature & Fiction

Tucker, Grant

British & Irish

In 1936, a constitutional crisis in the British Empire arose when Edward VIII proposed to marry Wallis Simpson, an American socialite who was divorced from her first husband and was pursuing the divorce of her second. The crisis led to the King's abdication in December of that year. Adrian Phillips reveals the harsh realities of how government responds when a monarch steps out of line, and describes the battles in Westminster and Whitehall that settled the fate of King and Mrs. Simpson.
Adrian Phillips worked as an investment analyst in London and Frankfurt for twenty-five years. He has a postgraduate Masters in modern history from Birmingham University.

The King Who Had To Go: Edward Vlll, Mrs Simpson and the Hidden Politics of the Abdication Crisis

Phillips, Adrian

Historical

When it was originally published in 1984, Militant was widely acclaimed as a masterly work of investigative journalism. Although the rise of Jeremy Corbyn is to be attributed to more than hard-left entrism, to some within the party, Crick's book must seem like a lesson from history.Militant was a secret Trotskyite organisation that consistently denied being a party, though at its peak in the mid-1980s it could boast around 8,000 members, all of whom also belonged to the Labour Party. Militant operated clandestinely inside the Labour Party, edging out moderates at grass-roots level and recruiting people to its own ranks. Whilst eventually most of its leaders were expelled, it caused damaging rifts within Labour. Crick's book explores the origins, organisation and aims of Militant. It also explores the famous boss politics of Derek Hatton and Militant in Liverpool, and the party hierarchy's determined and ultimately successful attempts to squash the tendency.An important historical document, it is today seen as a field guide to how hard-left factions can infiltrate the Labour party, with some in the centre of the party allegedly urging its supporters to treat the long unavailable book as a 'war manual'.

Militant

Politics & Social Sciences

Michael Crick

Politics & Government

This year marks the centenary of Harold Wilson's birth, the fiftieth anniversary of his most impressive general election victory and forty years since his dramatic resignation as Prime Minister.He was one of the longest-serving premiers of the twentieth century, having won a staggering four general elections, yet, despite this monumental record, his place in Labour's history remains somewhat ambiguous.By the end of his two periods in power, both the left and right of the party were highly critical of Wilson - the former regarding him as a traitor to socialism, the latter as contributing directly to British decline.With contributions from leading experts in the fields of political study, and from Wilson's own contemporaries, this remarkable new study offers a timely and wide-ranging reappraisal of one of the giants of twentieth-century politics, examining the context within which he operated, his approach to leadership and responses to changing social and economic norms, the successes and failure of his policies, and how he was viewed by peers from across the political spectrum. Finally, it examines the overall impact of Harold Wilson on the development of British politics.

Harold Wilson: The Unprincipled Prime Minister?

Robert Taylor

JANE MARTIN

Jeremy Nuttall

Dennis Kavanagh

Peter Dorey

Mark Garnett

Jasper Miles

Jim Tomlinson

Robert M. Page

Kevin Jefferys

David S. Moon

Catherine McGlynn

Shaun McDaid

Takeover: Explaining the Extraordinary Rise of the SNP

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