Ferdinand Mount's Books
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Spectator, April 10, 2013
...It begins with Patrick Cosgrave advocating Thatcher as Tory leader, then gives a six-month and one-year progress report. Ferdinand Mount describes the uneasiness that followed the 1979 triumph. Then, as now, The Spectator was no a Tory fanzine and we...
London Evening Standard, April 4, 2013
...Ferdinand Mount, who wrote Cold Cream, an exquisite memoir, and Mind the Gap, one of the best books about the British class system I’ve ever read, has turned his mind...
Guardian.co.uk, March 1, 2013
...of a place few of us can know," wrote Anthony Sattin in the Observer, and the Spectator's Ferdinand Mount enjoyed "this quizzical, beguiling book" too, observing that while Chaudhuri's novels sometimes "stray over into non-fiction", his first work of...
CorpComms, February 14, 2013
...the previous five years. What other books proved popular? The New Few, or A Very British Oligarchy, by Ferdinand Mount and Losing Small Wars: British Military Failure in Iraq and Afghanistan, by Frank Ledwidge...
Mail Online UK, February 12, 2013
...while Tony Blair's memoirs A Journey hit the top ten. Themes around rich and poor were popular. Ferdinand Mount's The new few, or a very British Oligarchy was the third most borrowed book. Chavs, a study of class in Britain by socialist activist Owen...
Metro.co.uk, February 12, 2013
...by Paul Flynn How Parliament Works, by Robert Rogers The new few, or a very British Oligarchy, by Ferdinand Mount Losing small wars: British military failure in Iraq and Afghanistan, by Frank Ledwidge Erskine May’s treastise on the law, privileges,...
New Statesman, December 31, 2012
...tale all the same. The New Few . . . Or a Very British Oligarchy: Power and Inequality in Britain Now Ferdinand Mount Simon & Schuster, 320pp, £18.99 Ferdinand Mount belongs to that growing band of penitent devotees of Margaret Thatcher who are...
Guardian.co.uk, January 16, 2013
...one, "has been that so much of the heavy lifting has had to be done by Ed himself." Ferdinand Mount was one of the heads of the Downing Street policy unit under Thatcher, but has been increasingly preoccupied as an author since by the social downsides...
Socialist Worker, December 31, 2012
...society from a state of ?collectivist brutality? to one of ?personal responsibility?. Thatcher praised a paper written by Ferdinand Mount, head of the Number 10 policy unit, in May 1982. He wrote that loss of discipline over children was no surprise...
One News Page, December 31, 2012
...tale all the same. *The New Few . . . Or a Very British Oligarchy: Power and Inequality in Britain Now* Ferdinand Mount Simon & Schuster, 320pp, £18.99 Ferdinand Mount belongs to that growing band of penitent devotees of Margaret Thatcher who...
New Statesman, December 31, 2012
...tale all the same. The New Few . . . Or a Very British Oligarchy: Power and Inequality in Britain Now Ferdinand Mount Simon & Schuster, 320pp, £18.99 Ferdinand Mount belongs to that growing band of penitent devotees of Margaret Thatcher who are...
Mail Online UK, December 28, 2012
...St Paul's, Bristol, and those in Brixton, Handsworth in Birmingham, and Toxteth in Liverpool the previous year. Ferdinand Mount, head of the government's policy unit, said many programmes of the day had a 'mind-numbing effect', offered 'no food for...
Mail Online UK, December 27, 2012
...St Paul's, Bristol, and those in Brixton, Handsworth in Birmingham, and Toxteth in Liverpool the previous year. Ferdinand Mount, head of the government's policy unit, said many programmes of the day had a 'mind-numbing effect', offered 'no food for...
