Order, Order!
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3. Time, 24 March 2009.
4. Transcript of Australian Broadcasting Corporation obituary, 20 May 2002.
5. Barry Gustafson, His Way: A Biography of Robert Muldoon (Auckland University Press, 2002), p. 372.
6. Gustafson, His Way, p. 375.
7. William Pokhlebkin, A History of Vodka (Verso, 1992), p. 86.
8. New Yorker, 16 December 2002.
9. Patricia Herlihy, The Alcoholic Empire (Oxford: OUP, 2002), p. 5.
10. Jasper Ridley, Tito (London: Constable, 1994), p. 328.
11. Jack Fishman and J. Bernard Hutton, The Private Life of Josif Stalin (London: W.H. Allen, 1962), p. 117.
12. Simon Sebag Montefiore, Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar (New York: Vintage,, 2005), p. 313.
13. Ibid., p. 478.
14. Ibid., p. 520.
15. Ibid., p. 531.
16. Herlihy, The Alcoholic Empire, p. 160.
17. Mikhail Gorbachev quoted in the New Yorker, 16 December 2002.
18. Timothy J. Colton, Yeltsin: A Life (New York: Basic Books, 2008), p. 310.
19. Taylor Branch, The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009), p. 198.
20. Max Hastings, Editor: An Inside Story of Newspapers (London: Macmillan, 2002), p. 205.
21. Timothy J. Colton, Yeltsin: A Life (New York: Basic Books, 2008), p. 313.
22. Quoted in Diplomat magazine, July 2012.
23. Foreign Policy Magazine, 4 March 2013.
24. Roosevelt, As He Saw It, p. 187.
25. Edward R. Stettinius Jr, Roosevelt and the Russians: The Yalta Conference (New York: Doubleday and Co., 1949), p. 111.
26. Michael Dobbs, Six Months in 1945 (London: Hutchinson, 2012), p. 74.
27. Margaret MacMillan, ‘Don’t Drink the Mao-Tai’, Washingtonian Magazine, 1 February 2007.
28. Richard Holbrooke, To End a War (London: Random House, 1998), p. 114.
29. Roger Cohen, The Unquiet American: Richard Holbrooke in the World, ed. Samantha Power and Derek H. Chollet (Public Affairs, 2011), p. 164.
30. The Guardian, 12 December 2010.
31. Jack Straw interviewed by Ben Wright, December 2012.
32. Paul Flynn, The Unusual Suspect (London: Biteback, 2010), pp. 246–7.
33. Harold Nicolson, ‘Diplomacy Then and Now’, Foreign Affairs, October 1961.
34. Nigel Farage interviewed by Ben Wright, September 2015.
35. John Campbell, Roy Jenkins: A Well-Rounded Life (London: Jonathan Cape, 2014), p. 517.
36. Geoff Meade interviewed by Ben Wright, September 2015.
37. Reuters, 1 July 2014.
38. Jean-Claude Juncker speaking to German TV channel ZDF, quoted in Luxemburger Wort, 4 February 2014.
Chapter 8: Time, Gentlemen!
1. James Nicholls, The Politics of Alcohol (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2009), p. 11.
2. Mark Spivak, Iconic Spirits: An Intoxicating History (Lyons Press).
3. Nicholls, The Politics of Alcohol, p. 36.
4. Ibid., p. 37.
5. Nicholls, The Politics of Alcohol, p. 37.
6. Jenny Uglow, Hogarth: A Life and a World (London: Faber & Faber, 1997), p. 494.
7. Charles Dickens, Sketches by Boz (London: Chapman & Hall, 1839), p. 198.
8. Nicholls, The Politics of Alcohol, p. 92.
9. Ibid., p. 111.
10. Ibid., p. 119.
11. The Law Commission, Legal Curiosities: Fact or Fable?, March 2013.
12. Luci Gosling, ‘Trouble Brewing: Asquith’s Licensing Bill’, History Today, Vol. 58, No. 3 (March 2008).
13. Quoted in the Publican, 15 December 2008.
14. Olympic Britain: Social and economic change since the 1908 and 1948 London Games, House of Commons Library.
15. Phillips, Alcohol: A History, p. 288.
16. Nicholls, The Politics of Alcohol, p. 207.
17. Nicholls, The Politics of Alcohol, p. 226.
18. National Statistics Authority, 2015 alcohol use figures.
19. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Health Data 2012.
20. Nicholls, The Politics of Alcohol, p. 254.
21. Office for National Statistics, Alcohol-related deaths in the United Kingdom, registered in 2012, 19 February 2014.
22. Office for National Statistics, Adult Drinking Habits in Great Britain 2013.
23. House of Commons Health Select Committee, Alcohol Report, 8 January 2010.
24. Andrew Lansley interviewed by Ben Wright, December 2014.
25. Dr Nick Sheron interviewed by Ben Wright, February 2015.
Epilogue: Last Orders?
1. Chris Bryant: Parliament: The Biography, Volume 2: Reform (London: Black Swan, 2015), p. 306.
2. John Sutherland, Last Drink to LA (London: Short Books, 2001), p. 34.
3. John Timbs, Clubs and Club Life in London (Chatto & Windus, 1872), p. 19.
4. Kingsley Amis, Everyday Drinking (London: Bloomsbury, 2008), p. 3.
INDEX
abstinence ref1 see also temperance movements
‘Achtung Alkoholkontrolle’ (Attention, Breath Test) (Juncker, Jean-Claude) ref1
Adams, President John ref1, ref2
Adams, President John Quincy ref1
Addington, Anthony ref1
Ainsworth, Bob ref1
air travel ref1
Aitken, Ian ref1, ref2
Aitken, Max see Beaverbrook, Lord
Alanbrooke, Lord ref1
‘Alas he was Sober’ (Young, Hugo) ref1
‘Alcohol and Alcoholism’ (Royal College of Psychiatrists) ref1
alcohol consumption ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5 see also gin
Russia and ref1
United States and ref1
alcohol duty escalator ref1
Alcohol Strategy ref1
alcoholism ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Allingham, Garry ref1
Amis, Kingsley ref1
Andrew, Stewart ref1
Annie’s Bar ref1
Antony, Mark ref1
Apsley, Sir Allen ref1
Arafat, Yasser ref1
Archer, Jeffrey ref1
‘Are You Fit to Make Decisions After a Long Air Flight and Two Extra Gins?’ (Rothschild, Victor) ref1
Armstrong, Ernie ref1
Armstrong, Lord Robert ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
art ref1
Asquith, Prime Minister Herbert ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
@eyespymp ref1
Athenaeum (club) ref1, ref2
Attlee, Prime Minister Clement ref1, ref2, ref3
Aubrey, Sir John ref1
Australia ref1
Austria ref1
Babur, Emperor of Mughal ref1
backbenches, the ref1
Balfour, Prime Minister Arthur ref1
Balkan wars ref1
Barbour, Governor Haley ref1, ref2, ref3
Barmaids Political Defence League ref1
bars ref1, ref2, ref3 see also pubs
Annie’s Bar ref1
Hawk ’n’ Dove ref1
Lords Bar, the ref1
Moncrieff ’s: The Press Bar ref1
Parliament and ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Strangers’ Bar ref1, ref2, ref3
Tune Inn ref1
Willard Hotel ref1
Barton, Prime Minister Edmund Toby ref1
BBC ref1, ref2
Beaverbrook, Lord ref1
Beckett, Andy ref1
Beefsteak Club ref1
Beer Act 1830 ref1
Belgium ref1
Bellamy, John ref1, ref2
Bell’s whisky ref1
Benn, Tony ref1
Bevan, Aneurin ref1, ref2, ref3
Bevanites, the ref1
Bevin, Ernest ref1, ref2
Biffen, John ref1, ref2
Billionaire’s Vinegar, The (Wallace, Benjamin) ref1
Bing Boys revue ref1
bin
ge drinking ref1, ref2, ref3 see also drunkenness and social problems
Binley, Brian ref1
Birkenhead, Lord ref1
Blair, Prime Minister Tony ref1, ref2, ref3
euro, and the ref1
Gay Hussar, and the ref1, ref2
Jenkins, Roy and ref1
Prime Minister’s Question Time (PMQs) and ref1
Smith, John and ref1
Trimdon Labour Club and ref1
Board of Education (drinking den) ref1
Boehner, John ref1
Bonham Carter, Violet ref1
Booth, Tony ref1
Boothby, Bob ref1
Boothroyd, Betty ref1
Bosnia-Herzegovina ref1
Boyd-Carpenter, John ref1
Bracken, Brendan ref1
Braddock, Bessie ref1
Bradshaw, Ben ref1
Brand, Russell ref1
Brazil ref1
Brezhnev, President Leonid ref1
bribery ref1, ref2
Britannia (royal yacht) ref1
British reputation ref1
Broadbent, Michael ref1
Brockway, Fenner ref1
Brodericke, Sir Allen ref1
Brooke, Alan, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke see Alanbrooke, Lord
Brooks’s gentlemen’s club ref1, ref2, ref3
Brotherhood of the Knights of St Francis ref1
Brown, Colin ref1, ref2
Brown, George ref1, ref2, ref3
Brown, George Rothwell ref1
Brown, Prime Minister Gordon ref1, ref2, ref3
euro, and the ref1
Gay Hussar, and the ref1
licensing laws and ref1
media, and the ref1
Brown, Michael ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Brummell, Beau ref1
Brussels, Belgium ref1
Budget Day ritual ref1
Budget 1909 ref1
Budget 2010 ref1
Bulganin, Nikolai ref1
Burchett, Josiah ref1
Burke, Edmund ref1
Burkina Faso ref1
Burt, Lorely ref1
Bush, President George W. ref1
Bute, Earl of ref1, ref2
Butler, Rab ref1
Cable, Vince ref1
Cadogan, Sir Alexander ref1
Cadwallader, Sylvanus ref1
Califano, Joseph A., Jr. ref1
Callaghan, Prime Minister James ref1
Callaghan government ref1
Camden, Earl ref1
cameras ref1, ref2, ref3
Cameron, Prime Minister David ref1, ref2, ref3
air travel and ref1
clubs and ref1, ref2, ref3
media, and the ref1
party conferences and ref1
Cameron, Ian (father of David) ref1
Campbell, Alastair ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Campbell, Sir Menzies ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
cancer ref1
Cann, Jamie ref1
‘Canvassing for Votes’ (Hogarth, William) ref1
Carlton Club ref1, ref2
Caro, Robert A. ref1
Carrington, Peter ref1
Carter, President James (Jimmy) ref1
Cassiday, George ref1
Castle, Barbara ref1, ref2
Central Control Board ref1
Central Policy Review Staff ref1
Chamberlain, Austen ref1
Chamberlain, Prime Minister Neville ref1
champagne ref1
Charles, Bruce ref1
China ref1, ref2, ref3
Christie’s auction house ref1
Churchill, Prime Minister Sir Winston ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Asquith, Herbert and ref1, ref2, ref3
barmaid ban and ref1
diplomacy and ref1, ref2
Herbert, A.P. and ref1
politicians and ref1
prohibition and ref1
Roosevelt, President Franklin D. and ref1
Cicero ref1
Cinnamon Club, the (restaurant) ref1, ref2
Clark, Alan ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Clarke, Kenneth ref1, ref2, ref3
Clarkson, Jeremy ref1
class ref1
Clegg, Nick ref1
Clinton, President William (Bill) ref1
clubs ref1, ref2
gentlemen’s clubs ref1
political clubs ref1
private members’ clubs ref1
social clubs ref1
Working Men’s Club and Institute Movement (CIU) ref1
coalition government ref1
Cole, Harry ref1
Colton, Timothy J. ref1
Colville, Sir Jock ref1
Commons Chamber, the ref1
Conservative Party ref1, ref2, ref3
Carlton Club and ref1
leadership and ref1
party conferences and ref1
Conway, Derek ref1
Cook, Robin ref1, ref2
Corbyn, Jeremy ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Corrupt Practices Act 1883 ref1
Coventry Working Men’s Club ref1
Crawford, Cynthia ref1
Critchley, Julian ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Crosby, Lynton ref1
Crosland, Anthony ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Future of Socialism, The ref1
Crossman, Richard ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Brown, George and ref1
diaries of ref1
Maxwell, Robert and ref1
Cunningham, Sir Knox ref1
Daily Express ref1
Daily Mirror ref1
Daily Telegraph ref1
Darling, Alistair ref1
Dashwood, Sir Francis ref1
Daugherty, Harry ref1
Davies, Denzil ref1
Davies, Sally ref1
Davis, David ref1, ref2
Day, Robin ref1
de Gaulle, President Charles ref1, ref2
‘Death in Venice’ (Nicholson, Jenny) ref1
debates ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Declaratory Act 1788 ref1
Defence of the Realm Act 1914 ref1
Defoe, Daniel ref1
Democratic Republic of Congo ref1
Denison, Edward E. ref1
Diageo ref1
Dickens, Charles ref1
Dickens, George ref1
diplomacy ref1
discrimination ref1 see also women
Disraeli, Prime Minister Benjamin ref1, ref2, ref3
Djilas, Milovan ref1
Dobbin, Jim ref1
Dobbs, Michael ref1
Dobson, Frank ref1
Dodd, Chris ref1
Donohoe, Brian H. ref1
Donoughue, Bernard ref1, ref2
Driberg, Tom ref1
drink driving ref1
drinking clubs ref1
drinking culture ref1
drinking limits ref1, ref2
drinks industry ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
drunkenness
binge drinking ref1, ref2, ref3
Britain and ref1
drink driving ref1
effects of ref1
euphemisms for ref1
gin and ref1
laws and ref1
Lloyd George, David and ref1
as offence ref1
Parliamentary law and ref1
synonyms for ref1
violence and ref1, ref2
voting and ref1
Dry January ref1
drying out ref1 see also health
Duncan Smith, Iain ref1
Dundas, Henry ref1
Ehrlichman, John ref1
‘Election Entertainment, An’ (Hogarth, William) ref1
elections ref1
United States and ref1, ref2
New Zealand and ref1
Elliot, Sir Gilbert ref1
euro, the ref1
European Union ref1
Eurosceptics ref1
Evans, Nigel ref1
Evening Standard ref1
expenses
scandal and ref1
system ref1, ref2
Fairlie, Henry ref1
Falkender, Marcia ref1
Farage, Nigel ref1, ref2, ref3
Finland ref1
First World War ref1, ref2, ref3
Fitt, Gerry ref1
Flynn, Paul ref1, ref2, ref3
Foot, Michael ref1
Forbes, Christopher ref1
Ford, President Gerald ref1
Foreign Office ref1
Foster, John Leslie ref1
Fox, Charles James ref1, ref2
Fox, Liam ref1, ref2
France ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Franklin, Benjamin ref1
Frayn, Michael
Towards the End of the Morning ref1
Freeth, Denzil ref1
Future of Socialism, The (Crosland, Anthony) ref1
Gaitskill, Hugh ref1, ref2
Galbraith, Thomas Galloway Dunlop de Roy de Blicquy see Strathclyde, Lord
Gay Hussar (restaurant) ref1
gender ref1, ref2
gentlemen’s clubs ref1 see also clubs
Georgian era ref1, ref2 see also gin
Germany ref1
Gilbert, W. S. and Sullivan, Arthur ref1
gin ref1
Gin Act 1736 ref1, ref2
Gin Act 1743 ref1
Gin Act 1751 ref1
‘Gin Lane’ (Hogarth, William) ref1
Gladstone, Prime Minister William ref1, ref2
Glee Club ref1
Goodman, Geoffrey ref1, ref2, ref3
Gorbachev, President Mikhail ref1
Gore-Booth, Eva ref1
Gorton, Prime Minister John ref1
Gow, Ian ref1, ref2, ref3
Graham, Reverend Billy ref1
Grant, President Ulysses S. ref1, ref2
Great Britain ref1
Greeks, the ref1, ref2
Greene, Graham
Quiet American, The ref1
Grocott, Bruce ref1
Guido Fawkes website ref1, ref2
Hague, William ref1, ref2, ref3
Haig, Alexander ref1, ref2, ref3
Haig, Sir Douglas ref1
Haines, Joe ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Haldeman, Bob ref1
Hardie, Keir ref1
Harding, President Warren ref1
Harman, Harriet ref1, ref2, ref3
Harmsworth, Harold, 1st Viscount Rothermere see Rothermere, Lord
Harris, Kenneth ref1
Hastings, Max ref1
Hattersley, Roy ref1, ref2
Have I Got News For You television show ref1
Hawk ’n’ Dove (bar) ref1
Hawke, Prime Minister Robert (Bob) ref1
Hawthorne, Nathaniel ref1
Healey, Denis ref1, ref2, ref3
health ref1, ref2, ref3 see also pricing
cancer ref1
drinking limits ref1, ref2
gin and ref1
Jefferson, Thomas and ref1
Kennedy, Charles and ref1
liver disease ref1
regulation and ref1
Rush, Benjamin and ref1