Over 30 years ago, the economic historian Alan Milward poured scorn on "the seemingly countless works on military history in which armies and navies come and go, commanded by greater or lesser figures deciding momentous historical issues, and nothing is said of the real productive forces which alone give such events meaning".
In recent years every time a senior DUP figure decided for one reason or another (normally to gain media attention to themselves) to pick on the gay community it usually backfired on the party.
In "Phineas Redux," Mr. Daubeny, the Conservative Disraeli figure, decides to keep power by proposing the radical idea of disestablishing the Church of England.
"If I was Chris Grayling, I would have looked at the appeal figures and decided to pause the process," he adds.
In addition to using crime figures, Mr. Sanders decided to measure his department's success with an annual survey of public satisfaction.
A few months ago, the economics team at Goldman Sachs examined the figures and decided that structural changes account for less than half of the decline.
The next leader is expected to be Diane James, the best known of a relatively inexperienced field, reduced after a series of figures either decided not to stand, or, in the case of Suzanne Evans and Steven Woolfe, were barred from doing to.
Among the absentees are three leading figures who decided not to stand: Paul Nuttall, Farage's media-friendly deputy; Douglas Carswell, the party's Tory-defecting sole MP; and Nathan Gill, the MEP who leads Ukip in Wales.
As his income surged comfortably into seven figures, Keane decided he would keep things simple.
