Crisis, What Crisis?
Britain in the 1970s
 
It seems as deeply researched as three Ph.D theses and yet Turner's narrative rattles along with a sly raconteur’s wit.

SPOILER ALERT: The strands of low culture and high politics are finely woven to a fine climax of comic inevitability in which Enoch Powell and Tony Benn console each other standing side by side in a House of Commons lavatory.

This is the kind of book that students of journalism, political science and sociology hide in the wrong sections of the university library so it will always be there when they need the right quote for a dissertation. My advice: buy your own.

Crisis, What Crisis?: Britain in the 1970s by Alwyn W. Turner (Aurum Press, £20)