Worst government of the century
Daniel Finkelstein chooses the 1974-76 Wilson regime:
Even more absorbing was the increasingly eccentric behaviour of his aide Marcia Williams, whom he [Wilson] made a peer as Lady Falkender. During most of Wilson’s last two years he was fending off her temper tantrums and becoming involved in her serial personal crises. Other aides have filled whole volumes with comic descriptions of these incidents. Her relations with the rest of his office were so strained that Wilson’s doctor hatched a plot to have her killed and had to be talked out of it.
Doctors' Plots, eh? What was it that Marx said about history repeating itself as farce?
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