On 13 September 2007, Robert Peston broke the news that Northern Rock had become a victim of the global credit crunch and was seeking an emergency loan from the

Forty years ago Anthony Sampson wrote his indispensable best-seller The Anatomy of Britain. Now he has felt drawn back to the task by exasperation with the lack

Originally published: London: Allen Lane/Penguin Books, 2014.

When Gordon Brown reluctantly stepped aside in the race for the Labour leadership in 1994, he entered into a fragile, turbulent but hugely successful political