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...most curious thing about the Cabinet," Walter Bagehot, founder and editor ot the Economist, wrote in 1867, "is that so very little is known about it. The meetings are not only secret in theory, but secret in reality....No description of it, at once graphic and authentic, has ever been given. It is said to be something like a rather disorderly board of directors, where many speak and few listen--though no one knows." A century later, the situation had not changed. Richard Crossman--Oxford don, psychological warfare chief, Labour M.P. and editor of The New Statesman--complained...
Crossman died in 1973 and left behind him a set of political diaries that presented a "graphic and authentic" picture of behind-the-scenes workings of the Cabinet intended to expose the myths of Cabinet government with the same devastating accuracy Walter Bagehot had levelled against the myths of constitutional monarchy a century earlier...
...with the P.L.P. Since the end of the Attlee government in 1951, though, the two largest British unions have shifted radically leftwards and increased the split between M.P.'s and trade unionists to alarming proportions. Wilson has so far, single-handedly bridged this gap. As Crossman pointed out, in Bagehot's terms Wilson has acted as the "bridge or buckle or hyphen" between Labour's two power bases...
...interest. Only this drive moves men to produce the goods that society needs. As he put it: "It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest." (Smith, observed English Economist Walter Bagehot in 1888, "thought that there was a Scotchman inside every...
...bump of irreverence, accorded only to Walter Bagehot and J. Kenneth Galbraith is Crossman's highest accolade for a mortal. He apears at first to be a genial but waspish don. He has attached his name to a string of monographs and collected essays- Plato Today. The God That Failed, New Fabian Essays. and The Government and the Governed. His current identity as one of the most powerful politicians in the Wilson Cabinet pokes through the do??sb mannerisms: the gray hair parts in the middle, the glasses slide down his nose, the fingers clench in good podium style...