Blick, A: At Power's Elbow Aides to the Prime Minister from Robert Walpole to David Cameron

"There are no more effective shiners of flashlights to hidden back rooms than Blick and Jones and there is no more important back room than the Prime Minister's in 10 Downing Street. From Walpole to Cameron the authors anatomise in meticulous detail the development of what might well now be described as a Prime Minister's department that dare not speak its name." Lord Hennessy, Attlee Professor of Contemporary British History, Queen Mary, University of London. "It is a major work, impressive in its scope and the depth of its analysis and understanding. Nothing will replace it." Lord Donoughue, senior policy adviser to Harold Wilson and James Callaghan.