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Former Labour Prime Minister, James Callaghan knew just what to do when faced by a sudden fall in shipyard orders, and imminent redundancy for skilled workers. ‘Scrap and build!’ he ordered, in so doing fast forwarding the whole process of…
If you cut through the hysteria currently being generated by the Murdoch echo chamber that is the Sunday Times and the Daily Mail whose hatred of trade unions knows no bounds, there is a stubborn truth that no amount of air-brushing will do…
So Britain’s first major nuclear power station construction in a generation – at Hinckley – is to come courtesy of the French state owned EDF energy company and Chinese state owned interests. In return for providing up to 7% of Britain’s…
Barely a month ago and according to a many lobby hacks and commentators, Ed Miliband was the political equivalent of a ‘dead man walking’. Here, for instance, is a flavour of the venom being poured into one newspaper, The Times, by David…
I didn't know Ralph Miliband, although I knew many who did. But I did know Lou Kenton, of the same generation, also a Jewish Marxist, who distinguished himself as a volunteer ambulance driver with the International Brigades in Spain and…
Newspaper circulations may be continuing to fall, and increasing numbers of people are turning away from the night-time television news bulletins. They are looking elsewhere for their news and comment and are often finding it. This does not…
In the 1970s the Conservative Party could still claim a membership of over a million. Two decades before that it was over three million and the Young Conservatives provided the principal dating agency for the sons and daughters of the…
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Housing, Raquel Rolnik, has discovered how nasty Britain’s 'nasty party', the Tory Party can be. The splenetic, spluttering anger of Housing Minister, Grant Shapps, that man of multiple identities…
Last week, and heavily overshadowed by now silenced war drums for Syria, Shadow Cabinet member, Angela Eagle spoke out against what she termed the ‘Crosbyisation of the Conservative Party’. Some may hope that she dusts off her speech again…
Unless we are all prepared to do something about it, history may be set to repeat itself, but this time with far more devastating consequences. Foreign Secretary, William Hague and the Prime Minister, David Cameron are pushing for early…
It has been with a certain detached sense of irony that I have listened to a succession of senior Labour figures, John Prescott, Jack Straw, Alistair Darling and David Blunkett criticising the strange Labour Summer offensive that wasn’t. It…
David Cameron was recently filmed lecturing a group of manufacturing workers with the inimical advice that ‘frankly we have to be more Germanic in our work practices’. That was pretty rich coming from an old Etonian who, like George…
