Free speech is under threat It must be defended. If you agree, this is the time to join us. Enjoy four months’ free access to The Telegraph. Cancel at any time. | | Charles Hymas Home Affairs Editor | The scandal over Lord Mandelson’s appointment as ambassador to the US, and sacking for his relationship with the convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, has provided a new focus of discontent for Labour’s welfare rebels.
These MPs, who defeated the Prime Minister’s attempts to reform benefits, told The Telegraph it was clear “this administration is coming to an end” and that Labour voters on the doorstep were calling for a new party leader.
My colleague Genevieve Holl-Allen and I can reveal that rebels are lining up behind Andy Burnham as he challenges Sir Keir Starmer to change course. This alliance will no doubt worry Downing Street.
It is being seen by Labour insiders as laying the groundwork for a potential tilt at the leadership with a more Left-wing agenda than that of Sir Keir: end the two-child benefit rule, introduce wealth taxes and nationalise utility companies.
Mr Burnham is expected to criticise Sir Keir explicitly at Labour’s annual party conference later this month, calling for a “reset” to help the party win the next election.
With the deputy leadership contest threatening to open up fresh divisions between northern grassroots activism (in the shape of sacked Commons leader Lucy Powell) and the establishment favourite (in the shape of Bridget Phillipson, the Education Secretary), party veterans are braced for a fractious conference.
Wise heads warn, however, that many a leadership ambition has been thwarted by a party that, unlike the Tories, is hardly a ruthless killing machine in unseating a sitting leader.
As one of those party grandees told us, Mr Burnham should take note of David Miliband and his infamous banana skin and “put up or shut up’’. If you recall, Miliband blew his chances by vacillating over his decision about whether to run against Gordon Brown. “The question is whether Andy is going to back off for the time being at the party conference because if he doesn’t, he has to make up his mind as to whether it’s all or nothing,” said the experienced hand.
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Right – let’s settle this once and for all. It can’t be that hard. What’s the best novel ever written? A recent letter from Stan Labovitch has prompted much discussion. He recalled how, “for what seemed like most of my early childhood, my father would read a dog-eared copy of War and Peace, borrowed from the local library, on the sofa after work. I remember the sense of wellbeing that he gained from it, and went on to read War and Peace myself. For me, it is the greatest novel of all”.
It’s hardly a controversial position, but I happen to agree with Stan on this one (though I must also put in a word for George Eliot’s Middlemarch). When I tackled Tolstoy’s epic – admittedly a while ago, and with a healthier attention span – I even enjoyed the hectoring digressions on the nature of history, which nobody is supposed to like.
But Telegraph readers had other suggestions. “To my mind,” replied Philip Maynard, “the greatest novel is Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate. The scale and scope of the book are vast, with every aspect of human behaviour recorded. Reading it is an unforgettable experience.”
This gave rise to a sub-debate seeking to identify the finest war story. According to Mart Ralph, “a third Russian one, alongside Tolstoy’s and Grossman’s, would be Mikhail Sholokhov’s epic, And Quiet Flows the Don. A French contender (not with a war theme but inspired by Napoleonic intrigue) is The Count of Monte Cristo”.
Michael McDermott added: “Any list of great war novels that does not include Catch-22 is, in my view, incomplete.” When it was put to Joseph Heller that he had never managed to write anything better than his debut, he retorted: “No. But nor has anyone else.”
Dr Rob Caird wasn’t so sure. “For a great 20th-century novel in English, I would suggest James Joyce’s Ulysses on the grounds of its literary versatility and sheer depth of allusion. However, for the greatest 20th-century novel by an English author, there can be few to rival A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell. It is full of sublime observation, erudition and deep characterisation.” Sorry, Rob, but I tried my best with Powell’s 12-novel sequence... and let’s just say I didn’t find those qualities in abundance. Who’d have thought we might struggle to reach agreement? You can nominate your favourite books here, or head to our Your Say page, exclusively on the Telegraph app. | Plan your day with the telegraph | Set your alarm to catch up with journalists on the Your Say page and listen to their analysis on our latest podcasts.
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