Britain felt it had few choices, following the publication last month of a report by an inquiry, headed by Sir Robin Auld, a former British judge, which found a “high probability of systemic ...

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 ...

It has very little to do, either, with that 1988 gem “A Very British Coup” although there are coups afoot. Of the matrimonial variety. They are. The woman whom Ms. Foy is portraying—a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A successful or failed coup attempt is followed by a prolonged ... even in heavy traffic" that cyclists are "very, very vulnerable" and that "you're worse off by bike". All of these statements ...

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 ...

The Sunday Times recently reported on a potential mutiny in the ranks of the British Army ... He said "feelings are running very high" at the very thought of a man leading the nation who might ...

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 ...