Dying to change the world? History is littered with brutal political assassinations
HISTORY ON ASSASSINATIONS by Kenneth Baker (Unicorn £20, 256pp) Too close for comfort and too often — that is Tory grandee Lord (Kenneth) Baker’s personal experience of assassinations. In 1979, he was in the library of the House of Commons when he heard the bang and felt the shock as, just yards away, a bomb … Read more