It was a very British coup. No soldiers in Downing Street, no tanks on Tony Blair's lawn. Just a volley of words aimed with precision at the Prime Minister. Make no mistake: this was either an ...

So I thought I'd better get on and write it." A Very British Coup emerged in 1982. It's the story of the brief premiership of Harry Perkins, a former Sheffield steelworker who unexpectedly reaches ...

"A Very British Coup" was a sensation when it was published in 1982 and again when it's made into a TV series in 1988. (SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "A VERY BRITISH COUP") OLIVER FORD DAVIES: (As Horace ...

What no one foresaw back in September 2015 is that “a very British coup” would come to be applied not to a covert intelligence service’s plan to remove a hard-left PM, but to an overt move ...

Bookstores are ordering fresh copies of A Very British Coup, the prescient 1982 political thriller, written by Chris Mullin, the former Foreign Office minister, whose fantasy of a country falling ...

Echoing that sentiment, DeMorgen main front page headline called it a “very British coup”. De Standaard’s headline said: “Johnson puts everything at stake for hard Brexit”.

A Very British Coup tells the story of Harry Perkins, a steel worker from Sheffield turned politician is elected as prime minister of a left-wing Labour government. Though the book behind the ...

The Conservatives have been in power for years, the working man feels disenfranchised, unemployment is rife, and there’s really bad music on the radio. And then Labour’s long-awaited electoral ...

But even in this frenzied cinematic clearance sale there are bargains to be had and, happy to report, the best is British. Indeed, it is the accursed state of being British that gives Jez ...