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Sunday Times
`This is a lovely book; warm, humane, genuinely revelatory and, on occasions, a touch surreal'
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'There is a passion in Benn's writing and speaking that far transcends the miserable aspirations of most contemporary politicians' Paul Foot, Guardian
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I won't say much, as if you are looking at buying this book you will probably have some idea of who this guy is and what he represents.
I found this book touching, fascinating and terrifying. The wool really has been pulled over our eyes and many of our civil liberties taken away from us in the UK.
Read this book, it will open your eyes.
I found this book touching, fascinating and terrifying. The wool really has been pulled over our eyes and many of our civil liberties taken away from us in the UK.
Read this book, it will open your eyes.
13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Being the proverbial 'floating voter' I have a large and unbiased appetite when approaching 'Political diaries'. Alan Clark's were deliciously frank and irreverent, John Major's autobiography (though not strictly a Diary) was noble yet suspiciously sanitised for me and the overblown Alistair Campbell tomb last year frankly rather dull considering he was Britain's media spin-king. But Tony Benn is always excellent value for money. Coming from the old Coventry and Warwickshire automotive heartlands I recall an Uncle regaling me as a boy with stories of picking Mr Benn up at Coventry station and conducting a whistle-stop tour of various BL factories in the 1970s. He was hugely impressed with his concise ability to sum up the sheer morass of industrial rancour in the UK at the time. I had previously purchased the Benn tapes and was utterly engrossed in the nitty gritty 'content' and adversarial 'detail' of government. The face-to-face show downs with Wilson, Callaghan and Foot illustrate the 'day-to-day' of the career politician better than any Government & Politics text book could. True, there are the usual 'hot-potatoes' that Tony embraces with the utopian - and almost naive- stance of an idealist. But perhaps we could do with one of two of idealists just now. The book has an epistolary feel to it with his observations, critiques and conclusions on everything from New Labour, Cameron (Blue Labour as he calls it), Bush, British celebrity culture and his day to day sketches and contemplations on life-sometimes hugely poignant and moving. I can't say that Tony has made me a card carrying Socialist but I certainly felt all the more richer and rewarded for the reading experience. I'd rank it in the same league as Alan Clark -though obviously for different reasons! Tony Benn remains among the very best political diarists we have.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
It is rather good. Detailed, politically astute and full of humanity. You do not have to be a socialist to enjoy this, so I suggest even members of the Labour party might like it.
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Fascinating
Tony Benn has always been one of my political heroes, a fiercely principled man who, even in his eighties, marches and speaks publicly about those principles. Read more
Published 28 days ago by J. Buddin
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This book is the latest volume of Tony Benn's long-running diaries, and possibly his most interesting. Read more
Published on 11 May 2009 by Peter Ellis
A Superb Read
Well, for a start, I'm a big fan of TB's, and I was not let down by this set of diaries. The style is vintage Benn - he gets straight to the point on issues, slicing through the... Read more
Published on 6 April 2009 by Michael Allan
The high standard continues
As with all his previous diaries, this continues to be a fascinating insight into the world of politics from a man that was lambasted by the press more often that not for being on... Read more
Published on 29 Jan 2009 by A. G. Battison
NOT ON-SIDE
Commenting yesterday evening on the current infighting within the governing Labour party, a famous British tycoon said that whether in a business organisation or in a government if... Read more
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I found it difficult to stop reading this; many times I could have gone on and on if my train hadn't reached its destination or the bath water hadn't gone cold. Read more
Published on 31 Oct 2007 by Charles
Unputdownably good
There are so few politicians who say what they think. Tony Benn is one of those who does and he does it so entertainingly. Read more
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