Killing Thatcher: The IRA, the Manhunt and the Long War on the Crown
By Rory Carroll
Mudlark £25
Counter-factual history can be immensely stimulating.
What might have happened, what almost happened – the questions are endless and the answers can never be conclusive.
Around the end of the First World War, Winston Churchill took an interest in flying aeroplanes. He was eventually dissuaded, but only after some near disasters. But suppose he had persisted in his new
