David Campbell Bannerman has been in the news a great deal recently as a cheer leader for Boris Johnson. He is chair of the self-styled Conservative Democratic Organisation, a body loud in its criticism of Rishi Sunak’s premiership and its insistence that Johnson is innocent of all findings of the Commons’ Privileges Committee. Campbell Bannerman’s …
Monthly Archive: June 2023
Jun 07
‘Nicko’ Henderson, ‘Dickie’ Mountbatten and Europe – it was forty-four years today…
Mountbatten, Cold War and Empire, 1945-79 and the paperback edition of its prequel, Mountbatten Apprentice War Lord were both published at the tail end of last year. There was so much that I couldn’t include in the second volume, including the following: On the first weekend in June 1979 Earl Mountbatten of Burma had no …
Adrian Smith, Emeritus Professor of Modern History, University of Southampton
