With the recent, sad demise of Tony Benn, I decided to revisit this book. I had not read it for many years and I was interested to see how well it had stood up to the years. Sadly, the answer is not well!

TB seems to be hung up upon the idea of displacing the Monarchy; an idea that would never gain favour amongst the people. I am not a great follower of the exploits of the Royal Family, but I do have experience of the effect that they have upon manu people and I do not see an elected President gaining the same enthusiastic support.

Perhaps, at the time of writing, the question of the monarchy seemed paramount, now there is so much more to concern us that I began to get irritated by the end. I shall search out some of Tony's excellent diaries, they will provide a much more fitting epitaph to the man. ( )