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"Even by the standards of the heated political atmosphere of the 1920s and 1930s, John Beckett led an extraordinary life. Elected as Labour's youngest M.P. in 1924, he was a prominent member of the left wing ILP and tipped for future greatness in the party. But his gradual disillusionment with Parliament led him to join the British Union of Fascists in 1934 where he was editor of several fascist publications and a prominent speaker. Moving even further to the fringes of the extreme right, he was a founder with William Joyce (aka Lord Haw-Haw) of the National Socialist League in 1937 and later interned by the government during WW2. He re-emerged from prison after the war and continued his right-wing political activities before converting to Catholicism in later life. The book draws on newly released security service (MI5) files as well as recent research and has been completely revised and updated throughout. Written by the subject's son, an acclaimed political biographer and journalist, this is a fascinating and candid account of a troubled man in turbulent times"--Provided by publisher.

"Even by the standards of the heated political atmosphere of the 1920s and 1930s, John Beckett led an extraordinary life. Elected as Labour's youngest M.P. in 1924, he was a prominent member of the left wing ILP and tipped for future greatness in the party. But his gradual disillusionment with Parliament led him to join the British Union of Fascists in 1934 where he was editor of several fascist publications and a prominent speaker. Moving even further to the fringes of the extreme right, he was a founder with William Joyce (aka Lord Haw-Haw) of the National Socialist League in 1937 and later interned by the government during WW2. He re-emerged from prison after the war and continued his right-wing political activities before converting to Catholicism in later life. The book draws on newly released security service (MI5) files as well as recent research and has been completely revised and updated throughout. Written by the subject's son, an acclaimed political biographer and journalist, this is a fascinating and candid account of a troubled man in turbulent times"--Provided by publisher

1. Daughter of a revolutionary -- 2. The promised land -- 3. The knock on the door -- 4. From which no traveller returns -- 5. Rosa in Kazakhstan -- 6. Rosa in London -- 7. 1956 : the prisons yield up their secrets -- 8. Rosa in redcar -- 9. Shadows in a world after communism -- 10. The persecution gene.

1. How the baby boomers got their freedom : 1945-51 -- 2. When we were very young : 1950-56 -- 3. The cradle of the sixties : 1956 -- 4. The baby boomers go to school -- 5. What if Mr. Macmillan's out? 1957-63 -- 6. The very model of a modern fluent technocrat : 1964-67 -- 7. The end of the adventure -- 8. How the baby boomers destroyed the trade unions and made Thatcherism : 1969-79 -- 9. The radical conservatives : 1979-97 -- 10. The baby boomer prime ministers : 1994-2010 -- 11. The children of the baby boomers.

Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 From Colleges to Academies -- 2 Blunkett Throws Money at Academies -- 3 Sponsors in Ermine -- 4 How They Tore Up the Laws on Schools -- 5 Faith in Academies -- 6 A Learning Curve in West London -- 7 Islington Feels the Wrath of Downing Street -- 8 The Schools that Fail to Fail -- 9 Selecting Staff, Sponsors and Students -- 10 But Does It Work? -- 11 Where Do We Go from Here? -- Appendix 1: Academies Open as at September 2006 -- Appendix 2: Timeline -- Appendix 3: Academies that Are in Development -- Index

Intro -- Title Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter One: It Was the Best of Times, It Was the Worst of Times -- Chapter Two: The Forward March of Labour Halted -- Chapter Three: Seeds of Destruction -- Chapter Four: Meltdown -- Chapter Five: Back to the '30s with Maggie -- Chapter Six: Breaking the Unions -- Chapter Seven: Return of the Robber Barons -- Chapter Eight: Militant Tendencies -- Chapter Nine: The Wilderness Years -- Chapter Ten: The Rise of Blair -- Chapter Eleven: Tony Blair and the Great Missed Opportunity -- Chapter Twelve: A Faustian Pact and a Meeting with Her Majesty -- Chapter Thirteen: Enter the Control Freaks -- Chapter Fourteen: The Road to Iraq -- Chapter Fifteen: 'A Control Freak, Uncollegiate and Delusional' -- Chapter Sixteen: Ed Stone Rules -- Chapter Seventeen: Labour's Most Reluctant Leader (Ever) -- Chapter Eighteen: The Strange Rebirth of Labour England -- Chapter Nineteen: Corbyn and the Circular Firing Squad -- Chapter Twenty: Corbyn's Jewish Problem -- Chapter Twenty-One: Labour Anti-Semitism - Virus or Tory Ramp? -- Chapter Twenty-Two: Forward March -- Afterword -- Index -- Copyright

In 2016 Labour, led by the most left-wing leader that the party had ever seen, burst into new life. The Westminster beltway of political insiders, pollsters, commentators and newspaper proprietors were completely taken by surprise and left with egg all over their faces. Few took the trouble to ask how or why Labour, almost alone amongst parties on the left in Europe, had re-grouped, revived and successfully turned its back, so decisively on Tony Blair and Bill Clinton's 'third way'. Labour England wasn't dead. It had been sleeping. For thirty years it had been kicked into near oblivion, first by Margaret Thatcher and then by Tony Blair. That strange, sentimental, almost mystical mix of the trade unions, adult education institutes, powerful Labour councils, the local comprehensive school and the local Co-Op that sustained Labour governments for thirty years from the 1940s to the 1970s had been in retreat. Now, against all the odds, it was back. What happened? What will Jeremy Corbyn's Labour England look like? Francis Beckett and Mark Seddon are Labour insiders. They know. And they say it will be an exciting and better place to live