I had not read this little hagiography of the RCP's Füredi until just recently.

https://www.spiked-online.com/2017/07/28/a-radical-life/

They do a quite good attempt at making the strange positions of the RCP (which I believe were contrarian by design) seem to be actually principled. Even their shameful calls (along with the so-called UDM and many Tories) for a national ballot during the Miners' Strike.