John Bew, Citizen Clem: A Biography of Attlee (London: Riverrun, 2016), 668 pp., $30.00. CLEMENT ATTLEE was blessed by good fortune. Wounded at Gallipoli, he survived the military disaster while many ...

Bew rightly makes much of Attlee’s hitherto-underexplored (indeed, almost unknown) inner life, especially his reading of the great English poets such as John Milton, William Blake, Percy Bysshe ...

On the first anniversary of Keir Starmer’s general election win, there will no doubt be much comment about what his government has achieved in its first year – and, more likely, where it has fallen ...

Both elections resulted in the election of resolute and determined prime ministers with radical agendas: Clement Attlee and Margaret Thatcher. Just as Mrs Thatcher transformed the nature of British ...