The Clydesiders by R. K. Middlemas (Hutchinson, 50s.) In the general election of 1922 twenty Independent Labour Party members were elected from Glasgow and the West of Scotland alone. As a vast, hymn-singing crowd saw the new MPs onto the London train one of them, Emmanuel Shinwell, was aware that “they had a frightening faith … Continue reading Rise and fall (review of ‘The Clydesiders’)