Steve Richards – The Rise of the Outsiders: How Mainstream Politics Lost its Way

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Steve Richards has presented a series of half hour broadcasts for the BBC about British prime ministers, which he delivers as live and without a script or even notes. They are brilliantly insightful, and wonderfully fluent. With characteristic modesty, Steve says that any of us might have made these programmes, on the grounds that we all lived through those times. He is wrong. He is among our most distinguished and trenchant political journalists, and I doubt that there are six people in the country who could have made them. His new book considers the most fascinating development of recent politics – the rise of the outsider. A loss of trust and … Continue reading →