A book where each chapter is a brief summary of a uk prime minister. They’re chronologically ordered from Walpole to Johnson, and each is written by a different author.
There’s no way I’ll remember details of half of them, but it definitely filled in a lot of gaps in my knowledge and I’ll remember the general thrust. Confirmed my belief that everyone remembers Churchill, but Atlee was the far better PM. I think I’ll read up more on Wilson too.
I was surprised that the recent list of Tory PMs was written up pretty much how I see them as failures on their own terms seeing as most were at least seen sympathetically through the book. Doubly so since the person in charge of the project is a leave voting telegraph columnist and attempted conservative MP. People are more interesting than the boxes we put them in I guess, and the selection of authors for each chapter seemed very good.
I’d love to see what people would write in future about Truss and Sunak.