Enough Is Enough: or, The Emergency Government

by Mark Lawson

Enough is Enough revolves around actual events in May 1968. Harold Wilson knows the public thinks he's a slippery liar, the newspapers are out for his blood, and the party which once loved him is now plotting to remove him. Still, he has failed to spot at least two other conspiracies brewing. Bernard Storey, a journalist, stumbles on the rival plots and enters a world of lying and spying, back-stabbing and blackmail, malicious gossip and false intelligence.

Genres: Fiction, Politics

395 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 15, 2005

About the author

Mark Gerard Lawson is an English journalist and author. Specialising in culture and the arts, he is known for his column in The Guardian, and for presenting the flagship BBC Radio 4 arts programme Front Row (1998-2014), and BBC Four's Mark Lawson talks to... series.

Reviews

[Colin · Rating 3 out of 5]

An enjoyable fictionalised account of the numerous half-baked plots against the Wilson governments of the 60s and 70s. I don't know which is more alarming - the fact that Wilson (a prime minister who promised so much but delivered so little) surrounded himself with so many scarily dysfunctional hangers on, or that the security service of the day could happily accommodate the likes of conspiracy theorists like Peter Wright, or that press barons could seriously attempt to plot to remove the elected prime minister of the day.

[Sum Doood · Rating 4 out of 5]

On Harold Wilson: "[H]e'd cross the A1 naked on a pogo stick if he thought it would help Marcia."