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The Prime Minister's Ironing Board and Other State Secrets: True Stories from the Government Archives
Adam Macqueen
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Description for The Prime Minister's Ironing Board and Other State Secrets: True Stories from the Government Archives
Paperback. From the author of the bestselling The First Fifty Years of Private Eye comes a collection of state secrets that those in power might have preferred to go unnoticed .. Num Pages: 304 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBJD1; WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 126 x 197 x 21. Weight in Grams: 282.
Stored in Whitehall's archives are everything from blood-chilling warnings of imminent nuclear attack to comical details of daily life in the corridors of power. Concerned notes from ministers on the subject of the Heir to the Throne's potential brainwashing by Welsh terrorists are shelved alongside worries about housemaids 'on the wobble' at Chequers.
Detailed and surprising plans for royal funerals sit beside reports on suspected spies in the showbiz world and bawdy poetry about the monkeys on the Rock of Gibraltar. And Mary Whitehouse's complaints about the sex education syllabus nestle next to thank-you notes from prisoner 13260/62, also ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Abacus
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780349138916
SKU
V9780349138916
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Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-50
About Adam Macqueen
Adam Macqueen has worked at Private Eye on and off for fourteen years. He was assistant, deputy and finally acting editor of The Big Issue between 1999 and 2002 and is currently on the editorial team of Popbitch.com. He was also associate producer on Adam Curtis's BBC series All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace. Adam Macqueen lives on ... Read more
Reviews for The Prime Minister's Ironing Board and Other State Secrets: True Stories from the Government Archives
full of wry, waspish humour
The Scotsman
A hugely enjoyable bran tub of revelations about our rulers' fancies and foibles over the past century
David Kynaston
The Scotsman
A hugely enjoyable bran tub of revelations about our rulers' fancies and foibles over the past century
David Kynaston