Summary
During the 19 6 os, Wilson's economic policy, which included the humiliating devaluation of the pound, seemed almost deliberately self-defeating. The explanation, it emerges, was that he was following the advice of a defunct Soviet textbook, which might have worked in an economy based on tractors, but was supremely ill-suited to bringing the "white heat" that Wilson had promised.
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Harold Wilson Had Been a Spy
"It was all a misunderstanding," Mary Wilson says quietly, her hands cradling a cup of tea. "Harold never meant to let anybody down. "
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