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Notes
Introduction
1. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, A Warning to the West, p. 45.
2. See A. N. Wilson, God’s Funeral, John Murray, 1999.
1 Old Western Man
1. Tolkien, p. 283.
2. Quoted White, Tolkien: A Biography, p. 200.
3. Carpenter, Tolkien, p. 43.
4. Ibid., p. 228.
5. ‘De Descriptione Temporum’, in Lewis, pp. 1–14.
6. Taylor, English History, p. 600.
7. Ibid.
8. Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies, pp. 176–7.
9. Ibid., Unended Quest, p. 198.
2 Space and Spies
1. Lindsay, p. 28.
2. Ibid., p. 48.
3. Ibid., p. 22
4.Ibid., p. 238.
5. Scott and Leonov, p. 241.
6. Annan, p. 235.
7. Muggeridge, The Infernal Grove, p. 211.
8. Guardian, 14 September 2002.
9. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves, p. 125.
10. Sunday Times, 24 February 2008.
11. Massingberd, The Daily Telegraph Fifth Book of Obituaries, p. 106.
12. Wharton, p. 103.
13. Bennett, Single Spies, p. 18.
14. Ibid., p. vii.
3 Other Gods
1.
White, The Fruits of War, p. 121.
2. Oakes, p. 73.
3. Spurling, p. 289.
4. Cooper, p. 202.
5. David, Italian Food, p. 25.
6. David, A Book of Mediterranean Food, p. 13.
7. To the author.
8. Massingberd, The Daily Telegraph Fourth Book of Obituaries, p. 156, for this, and subsequent details about Cradock.
9. MacCarthy, p. 221.
10. Ibid., p. 232.
11. Hickman, p. xix.
12. Auberon Waugh, Will This Do?, p. 91.
13. Hickman, p. 58.
14. Marx, p. 712.
15. The Times, 8 February 2008.
16. Compton-Burnett, p. 9.
17. Charlie Gillett, Five Styles of Rock and Roll, in Heylin, The Penguin Book of Rock & Roll Writing.
18. Wikipedia.
19. Dors, For Adults Only, p. 25.
20.Flory and Walne, p. 205.
21. Colquhoun, p. 71.
22. Ibid., p. 74.
23. Ibid.
24. Ibid., p. 71.
25. Pollock, p. 120.
26. The Economist, 22 May 1954.
27. Duncan-Jones, p. 93.
4 A Portrait of Decay
1. Muggeridge, Like It Was, p. 463.
2. Moran, p. 557.
3. Berthoud, p. 218.
4. Ibid., p. 216.
5. Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill, Vol. viii, p. 1086.
6. Berthoud, p. 219.
7. Ponting, Churchill, p. 760.
8. Ibid., p. 760.
9. Ibid., p. 761.
10. Journal for Historical Review, March/April 1999.
11. Ponting, Churchill, p. 769.
12. Ibid., p. 757.
13. Quoted Pimlott, The Queen, p. 279.
14. Ibid., p. 280.
15. Moran, p. 722.
16. Colville, The Churchillians, p. 171.
5 Suez
1. Thorpe, p. 524.
2. Moran, p. 440.
3. Thorpe, p. 418.
4. Ibid., p. 453.
5. Ibid., p. 468.
6. Ibid., p. 471.
7. Ibid., p. 478.
8. Lloyd, p. 172.
9. Thorpe, p. 516.
10. The Times, 1 November 1956
11. Ibid., 6 November 1956.
12. Ibid.
13. Cole C. Kingseed, Eisenhower and the Suez Crisis of 1956, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, 1995, p. 140.
14. Steven Z. Freiberger, Dawn over Suez: The Rise of American Power in the Middle East, 1953–1957, Ivan R. Dee, Chicago, 1992, p. 266.
15. Colville, The Fringes of Power, p. 670.
16. Goodhart, p. 4.
17. Ibid., p. 7.
18. Turner, p. 433. See also Robertson, p. 76, and Lloyd, Suez, 1956: A Personal Account, passim.
6 Supermac
1. Malcolm Muggeridge, quoted Horne, Macmillan, Vol. 2, p. 122.
2. Alan Clark, The Tories, p. 313.
3. Ibid., p. 384
4. Horne, Macmillan, Vol. 2, p. 140.
5. Horne, ibid., p. 160.
6. Clark, The Tories, p. 311.
7. Tolstoy, p. 327–and passim for exposé of the disgraceful story of the handing of White Russians to the Red Army in 1945.
8. Quoted Clark, The Tories, p. 329.
9. Horne, p. 554.
10. Ibid., p. 555.
11. Quoted Hogg to author.
12. Ibid.
13. Quoted by Alastair Forbes to the author.
14. Quoted Robert Rhodes James, Bob Boothby: A Portrait, Hodder & Stoughton, 1991, p. 121.
15. Massingberd, The Daily Telegraph Fourth Book of Obituaries, p. 280.
16. Pearson, p. 157.
17. Quoted Rhodes James, Bob Boothby, p. 416.
18. Ibid.
19. Massingberd, The Daily Telegraph Fourth Book of Obituaries, p. 283.
20. Rhodes James, Boothby, p. 419.
21. Reg and Ron Kray, p. 42.
22. Rhodes James, Boothby, p. 114.
23. Horne, p. 276.
24. Ibid., p. 93.
25. Richie, pp. 716–18.
26. Horne, p. 194.
27. Ibid., p. 422.
28. The Times, 11 January 1960.
29. Fisher Papers, Lambeth Palace Library, Vol. 251 f. 95.
30. Dorril, p. 610.
31. Horne, p. 319.
32. Lamb, The Macmillan Years, p. 407.
33. Horne, p. 423.
34. Lamb, The Macmillan Years, p. 439.
35. Ibid., p. 434.
36. Horne, p. 268.
37. Lamb, The Macmillan Years, p. 501.
7 Mental Health and Suicides
1. Carpenter, That Was Satire, That Was, p. 121.
2. Larkin, ‘Church-going’, Collected Poems, p. 59.
3. Andrew Scull reviewing Michel Foucault, History of Madness, TLS, 23 March 2007
4. Quoted Busfield, p. 28.
5. TLS, 2 April 2007, p. 17.
6. See Foucault, p. 112.
7. Slinn, p. 314.
8. Shepherd, p. 223.
9. To the author.
10. Canetti p. 153.
11. By Richard Titmuss–Timmins, p. 212.
12. Timmins, p. 209.
13. Heffer, p. 282.
14. Sedgwick, p. 77.
15. Ibid., p. 6.
16. Quoted Massingberd, The Daily Telegraph Fourth Book of Obituaries, p. 56.
17. The judgement is that of Dorothea Krook, Plath’s favourite teacher at Cambridge, quoted Janet Malcolm, p. 54.
18. Malcolm, pp. 120–1.
19. Plath, p. 387.
20. Ibid., p. 395.
21. Alvarez (quoted Malcolm, p. 42).
22. Feinstein, pp. 142–3.
23. Hughes, Letters of Ted Hughes, p. 524.
24. Sylvia Plath, ‘Daddy’.
25. Church Times, 16 November 2007.
26. The Times, 9 November 2007.
8 Lady Chatterleyand Honest to God
1. Rolph, p. 4.
2. H. Montgomery Hyde, Other Love: An Historical and Contemporary Survey of Homosexuality in Britain, Heinemann, 1970, pp. 213–14, quoted in an interesting paper by A. D. Harvey, ‘Hotting up Homophobia’, which he was kind enough to show to the author.
3. Quoted A. D. Harvey, p. 6.
4. Rolph, p. 17.
5. Levin, p. 305.
6. The Trial of Lady Chatterley, privately printed 1961, p. 72.
7. Daily Sketch, 9 October 1961.
8. Wodehouse, Meet Mr Mulliner (The Bishop’s Move), p. 90.
9. Ramsey Papers, Lambeth Palace Library, Vol. 50, f. 238.
10. Ibid., f. 132.
11. Ibid., f. 157.
12. Robinson Papers, Lambeth Palace Library, Lambeth MS 4359 f. 3.
13. Margaret Ramsey to author.
14. De-la-Noy, pp. 136–7.
15. Ibid., p. 139.
16. Ramsey Papers, Vol. 3, 6 August 1966.
17. Ibid., f. 221, 19 January 1967.
18. Ibid., f. 86.
19. De-la-Noy, pp. 143, 144.
9 Profumo and After
1. Oswald Mosley, My Life, Nelson, 1968, p. 244.
2. Ibid., p. 240.
3. Phillip Knightley and Caroline Kennedy, An Affair of State, Jonathan Cape, 1978, p. 46.
4. Ibid., p. 57.
5. Wayland Young, p. 3.
6. Quoted Knightley and Kennedy, p. 93.
7. Wayland Young, pp. 15–16.
8. Ibid., p. 26.
9. DNB, Oxford University Press, Vol. 58, p. 833.
10. The Times, 9 March 2006.
11. Wayland Young, p. 34.
12. Ibid.
13. Ibid.
10 Enemies of Promise
1. Sampson, Anatomy of Britain, p. 175.
2. Wayland Young, p. 14.
3. Massingberd, The Daily Telegraph Fourth Book of Obituaries, p. 209.
4. Baston, p. 327.
5. Sampson, Anatomy of Britain, p. 89.
&nbs
p; 6. Douglas-Home, p. 14.
7. Bernard Crick, The Reform of Parliament, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1966, p. 133.
8. Annual Register, 1999, p. 17.
9. Dominic Hobson, The National Wealth, HarperCollins, 1999, p. 531.
10. Ibid., p. 40.
11. Heard by the author three or four times.
12. Private Eye, No. 67, 10 July 1964.
13. Ibid., No. 71, 4 September 1964.
14. Ibid., No. 73, 6 October 1964.
15. Ibid., No. 302, 4 July 1973, p. 19.
16. Kenneth Young, Sir Alec Douglas-Home, J. M. Dent & Sons, 1970,p. 192.
17. Ibid., p. 205.
18. Carpenter, That Was Satire, That Was, p. 281.
19. Peter Collier and David Horowitz, The Kennedys, Secker & Warburg, 1984, p. 170.
20. Alistair Forbes, quoted ibid.
21. Charlotte Mosley, ed., The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters, Fourth Estate, 2007, p. 359.
22. Horne, Macmillan, Vol. 2, p. 483.
23. Phillip Knightley and Caroline Kennedy, An Affair of State, Jonathan Cape, 1987, p. 197.
24. Ibid., p. 206.
11 The 14th Mr Wilson
1. King, p. 59 (18 February 1966).
2. Pimlott, Harold Wilson, p. 334.
3. Paterson, p. 165.
4. Brivati, Lord Goodman, p. 128.
5. Donoughue, The Heat of the Kitchen, pp. 200–201.
6. Annan, p. 221.
7. Foot, p. 150–the echo being from Marx’s Capital that ‘capitalist production develops technology only by sapping the original sources of all wealth–the soil and the labourer’.
8. Pimlott, Harold Wilson, p. 304.
9. Clarke, Hope and Glory, pp. 284–6.
10. F. R. Leavis, ‘The Significance of C. P. Snow’, Spectator, 9 March 1962.
11. Ibid., p. 302.
12. DNB, Oxford University Press, 1980, p. 788.
13. PREM, 13/10.
14. Meredith, p. 46.
15. Annual Register, 1965, p. 105.
16. Ramsey Papers, Lambeth Palace Library, Vol. 86, f. 84.
17. Massingberd, The Daily Telegraph Fourth Book of Obituaries, p. 165.
18. Ramsey Papers, Vol. 86, f. 84.
19. Ibid., Vol. 87, f. 100.
20. Ibid., Vol. 86, f. 86.
21. Meredith, pp. 60–61.
22. Ibid., p. 368.
23. Foot, p. 214.
24. Pimlott, Harold Wilson, p. 393.
25. Foot, p. 185.
26. Ibid., pp. 216–17.
27. Sunday Times, 7 May 1967, quoted Foot, p. 213.
28. Paterson, p. 194.
29. Ibid., pp. 282–5.
30. Ibid., p. 214.
31. Ibid., p. 216.
32. Winder, p. 289.
33. Shepherd, p. 223.
34. Ibid., p. 325.
35. Ibid., p. 365.
36. Ibid., p. 354.
37. Foot, p. 327.