Veteran former MP, ex-cabinet minis- ter and social
justice campaigner Tony Benn was famous for his frequent appeals to
the media to focus on 'policies not personalities.' In truth the
two have always been intertwined in the mod- ern era, from Lloyd
George and Churchill to Guevara, Obama and beyond.
Even Benn, once a hate figure for the tabloid press, has
latterly become a ...
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