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Anthony Painter

Anthony PainterAnthony Painter is author of Barack Obama: Movement for Change, which is already on its second printing and published in Italian, Japanese, Audiobook, and e-book. He also recently written for The Guardian, The Independent, Tribune, and the Birmingham Post and appeared on BBC Breakfast News, The Adam Boulton Show, BBC Radio Five Live, BBC London, LBC, BBC Radio Wales, and dozens of other stations talking about the new president, his administration, British and European politics. He is a Labour party candidate for the European Parliament in the West Midlands. Anthony blogs at anthonypainter.co.uk.

Posted on Apr 02, 2009 at 03:29pm


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'Free schools' and the future of education

11:33 am, Wed 8th Sep 2010
'Free schools' and the future of education The Labour movement column By Anthony Painter The announcement of the first twenty ‘free schools’ to proceed to a formal business plan has brought the future of education into focus....
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An economic and political death match?

10:31 am, Wed 1st Sep 2010
An economic and political death match? The Labour movement column By Anthony Painter History never repeats itself; at best it sometimes rhymes. So said Mark Twain and in immediate defiance of this dictum, the quote has...
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The magic formula? Building a winning majority

5:28 pm, Wed 25th Aug 2010
The magic formula? Building a winning majority The Labour movement column By Anthony Painter In order for Labour to be in government it has to build a winning majority. There. That’s the magic formula. In this majority...
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Social housing: The story of Altgeld Gardens

12:00 pm, Wed 18th Aug 2010
Social housing: The story of Altgeld Gardens The Labour movement column By Anthony Painter A balanced and thriving community for African American soldiers returning from WWII, Altgeld Gardens in Chicago prospered in the 1950s and 1960s. With...
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Reciprocity: potentially explosively controversial for the left

5:14 pm, Wed 28th Jul 2010
Reciprocity: potentially explosively controversial for the left The Labour movement column By Anthony Painter Yesterday, Demos Open Left published an e-book on the future of the Labour Party in partnership with Soundings magazine. A word that keeps...
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The politics of the mind

11:09 am, Wed 21st Jul 2010
The politics of the mind The Labour movement column By Anthony Painter Professor George Lakoff has had a habit of coming to prominence when the left is suffering. As Ezra Klein observed on his Washington...
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Labour needs to learn the art of opposition

12:40 pm, Wed 14th Jul 2010
Labour needs to learn the art of opposition The Labour movement column By Anthony Painter It took the Tories eight years to begin to grapple with the art of successful opposition. They got there in the end. Just...
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This reform isn't poisonous. It's soulless and that's worse

11:58 am, Wed 7th Jul 2010
This reform isn't poisonous. It's soulless and that's worse The Labour movement column By Anthony Painter / @anthonypainter One of the remarkable things about Michael Braddick’s "God’s Fury, England’s Fire" - his new history of the English Civil Wars...
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Be wary when you hear the word 'unavoidable' - disaster is often not far behind

10:53 am, Wed 30th Jun 2010
Be wary when you hear the word 'unavoidable' - disaster is often not far behind The Labour movement column By Anthony Painter It is difficult to decide which was the bigger lie about the emergency budget – that it was fair or that it was...
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These decisions were not unavoidable. They were a choice

8:40 am, Wed 23rd Jun 2010
These decisions were not unavoidable. They were a choice The Labour movement column By Anthony Painter / @anthonypainter Britain changed yesterday. We became a different sort of country. The warning signals have been with us for some time. And...
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