Showing posts with label UK political system. Show all posts
Showing posts with label UK political system. Show all posts
Sunday, 20 September 2015

Do Not Treat My Politics as Any Less than Yours

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As anyone who has read this blog down the years will not be surprised, I am pleased that Jeremy Corbyn has been elected leader of the Labour...
Sunday, 7 August 2011

The Continued Relevance Of 'Walls Come Tumbling Down'

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A couple of years back it became apparent that, while adults are big consumers of music which in past decades would have remained the preser...
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Tuesday, 1 February 2011

What If Harold Wilson Had Been Overthrown In A Coup D'Etat?

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My views on this topic can be found in my e-book ‘Other Lives: 'What If?' Essays about Famous People in History’ .   It is availab...
Tuesday, 9 March 2010

Encountering Michael Foot

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I met the veteran British Labour politician, Michael Foot, who died last week at the age of 96, twice, with a spread of twenty years between...
Saturday, 21 February 2009

'Alien to British Culture': A Myopic View of Britain's History and Society

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I have just started reading 'The Strange Death of Socialist Britain' (1992) by Patrick Cosgrave (1941-2001). I read the book that in...
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Sunday, 20 July 2008

What is the Problem with an Elected House of Lords?

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Back in 1997 before the Labour Party was elected to power for the first time in the UK in 18 years there was much in their policy documents ...
Friday, 4 May 2007

Is this a model of democracy?

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Talking with some young Americans at the time of the war with Iraq I put forward the following suggestion for the political system that migh...