Simon Heffer

The biography of a nobody

A biography of Ed Miliband has to try hard not to be the sort of thing one buys as a present for someone one avidly dislikes.

issue 02 July 2011

  • Ed: The Milibands and the Making of a Labour Leader

    Mehdi Hasan and James Macintyre

    Biteback, pp. 336

A biography of Ed Miliband has to try hard not to be the sort of thing one buys as a present for someone one avidly dislikes. This effort, the first in what its authors seem (perhaps optimistically) to imagine may be a long series of accounts of their subject’s life, does not try hard enough.

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