Books The IRA’s blank assassin The Brighton bomb killed five people but failed to hit its target, Margaret Thatcher. By Michael Burleigh
Michael Burleigh’s Diary: Rees-Mogg at the Palladium, China’s exiled novelists – and why I’ll never vote Tory again Weep as British politics drifts into light entertainment, and that John Osborne is no longer alive to scorn this. By Michael Burleigh