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Review of Michael Burleigh, Day of the Assassins: A History of Political Murder (2021)
“In times like these we have to rue that Britain has only a paltry tradition of political assassination,” Jonathan Meades writes in Literary Review. “This, I’d propose, is not a mark of civilisation but of timidity and the eschewal of realpolitik.”