My summer holiday reading this year included Ruth Winstone’s fascinating Events, Dear Boy, Events (the title is an alleged quote from prime minister Harold Macmillan in response to an interviewer who asked him what was the most difficult thing about his job).
The book, a genuine “couldn’t put it down” read especially for someone who’s lived through much of it, is a collection of excerpts from the diaries of politicians and political observers, from 1921 to 2010.
It has hundreds of contributions from dozens of diarists, all the way from such as Beatrice Webb, Ramsay MacDonald and Lady Violet Bonham Carter up to Chris Mullin, Robin Cook and Piers Morgan, finding room for Noël Coward and Cecil Beaton along the way.
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