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How well do you know the British Prime Ministers?

By Mark Pack | Sun 20th November 2011 - 4:10 pm

A quick history quiz for the weekend: only five recent Prime Ministers have not subsequently taken a seat in the House of Lords. Who are the five?

Three you should find quite easy, a fourth not too hard if you are an older reader, but the fifth may surprise – or make you think “oh, of course!”…

(Answer after the jump)

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Posted in Parliament | Also tagged history | 15 Comments

Dishonourable Insults by Greg Knight

By Mark Pack | Fri 4th November 2011 - 7:46 am

Over the years, Conservative MP Greg Knight has made a mini-cottage industry out of collections of political insults, wit and invective, of which the new Dishonourable Insults is the fifth.

Spot checking the content of this volume against one of his previous works – Parliamentary Sauce – you find that there is a fair amount of reused content, including whole passages which reappear with varying degrees of editing. Generally the 19th and early 20th century figures have had their range of insults edited down, losing as a result one of my favourite Disraeli insults, directed at a backbench MP: “He is not …

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Posted in Books | Also tagged benjamin disraeli, charles de gaulle, Harold Wilson and winston churhcill | Leave a comment

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