The essay ran in the *Guardian* on a Tuesday in March, under Ed Morgan's real name. It was not the first time Ed had written about the reform movement. Over the years he had published pamphlets, letters, memoranda to committees—all of it unsigned or attributed to pseudonyms or ghostwritten for lords who had the political cover to put their names on things. He had been the invisible architect of a great deal of the argument that had eventually found its way into law, and he had made his peace wi...