In 1930 John Beckett was one of Britain's most controversial MPs. A headstrong left-winger, he once seized the Mace in the Commons and tried to dump it in a lavatory. Yet, until the appearance of this well-researched book, he had been relegated to the historical footnotes, and he is rarely mentioned outside studies of British fascism. Francis Beckett has written about his father partly to rescue him from neglect, but [...]