Something completely different to the usual fare this time: a little while back I picked my five favourite spy novels for the Spybrary podcast. For a variation from the usual Never Mind The Podcasts fare, take a listen to what I picked, and why those in politics so often like spy stories:
Anthony Price features, of course. As does (ssssh! former spy) Paddy Ashdown and US President Lyndon B Johnson, subject of perhaps the best non-fiction book and one with a brilliant narrator too.
In coincidental related news, I discovered recently that the author of the standard book on the history of the early years of campaigning for proportional representation was a Communist, and possibly a Russian spy. The author is Jennifer Hart and the book is Proportional Representation: Critics of the British Electoral System 1820-1945.
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How have Labour and the Lib Dems done in 2022?
Talking political polling, with the No Man’s Land podcast
Where next for British politics?
The cancellation of the Lib Dem autumn conference
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Conservative Party leadership election: who is going to win, and what does it mean for the Lib Dems?
Hope and headaches for the Liberal Democrats?
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Red Wall, Red Herring? The economic insecurity driving British politics
How did Labour, Tories and Lib Dems really do in the local elections?
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Famous polling errors, what to do when polls go wrong and more...
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Using online advertising to tell Russians the truth about Ukraine
Birthday cake versus demographics: which will determine the future of British politics?
What does 2022 hold for the Lib Dems? With Ed Davey and Mike Dixon
Does North Shropshire signal the end for Boris Johnson?
The three reasons Boris Johnson won in 2019, and why he might not next time
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