This post originally appeared on the Observing the 80s blog.
In the wake of Labour’s disastrous 1983 campaign Tony Benn informed readers of the Guardian newspaper that despite appearances it … Read the rest
This post originally appeared on the Observing the 80s blog.
In the wake of Labour’s disastrous 1983 campaign Tony Benn informed readers of the Guardian newspaper that despite appearances it … Read the rest
The release of The Spirit of ’45, Ken Loach’s paean to the reforms of Clement Attlee’s Labour government, combined with the Conservative/Liberal Democrat rhetoric of national consensus in the … Read the rest
This blog post originally appeared in The Guardian‘s Comment is free.
The general election of 1945 is one of the key turning points of modern British history. Labour … Read the rest
In November 2011 Samir Amin, one of the leading political thinkers of the past half century was in Nottingham, for a series of lectures and seminars organised by the … Read the rest