Harold Wilson’s affair and how we misread leaders

Rock & Roll Politics with Steve Richards

English - April 16, 2024 03:00 - 53 minutes - ★★★★ - 8 ratings
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In his last term as Prime Minister, Harold Wilson was seen as old, paranoid and ineffective… yet now we discover he was lively enough to be having an affair. This suggests the caricature might be wrong. What if Wilson was livelier politically too? And what if we choose to see other leaders as stereotypes which do not present anything like the full picture?
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PLUS get free admission to Steve’s Local Elections 2024 Post-Mortem, live on Zoom at 5pm on Friday 3 May.

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See Rock & Roll Politics live at King's Place on the 10th of July.

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