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It is difficult to remember a time when the British broadcast and print media have collectively been so far to the Right. In part there is a Right wing Conservative led Coalition under guerrilla attack from UKIP forces even further to the…
The harder sections of the media and the Conservative Party tried to make everyone like Baroness Thatcher, the more resistant people came. As the days went on, the harder they tried the more shrill the message, and inevitably the splits in…
I had always promised myself that on the day I heard the news that Margaret Thatcher had finally passed away, I would take myself off quietly to sit and ruminate in somewhere like the Maltby Miners Welfare in South Yorkshire. Quite by…
Just as the walls went up in place of windows in 1696, as King William III introduced the infamous Window Tax, so I predict that the walls will shortly be coming down – as desperate people try and avoid the bedroom tax by taking a sledge…
Following George Osborne’s budget, there was much in the media about the ‘March of the Makers’. For those who may have missed out on this brave exhortation to Britain’s manufacturers, here is a slogan invented by Government to show that it…
For months now, ever since the first howls of anguish greeted the publication of the Leveson Report, the political and media establishment in this country have sought to present his essentially fairly modest proposals as a monstrous threat…
Labour leader Ed Miliband received further vindication of the stand he took in the run up to his election as leader of the party when he said that the Iraq War was wrong. YouGov have published new research that reveals a decade after the…
Much of the traditional media seems to be wilfully missing the political story that lies behind the attempts to save the Eurozone from itself. The Right wing media is banging a Eurosceptic drum, replete with pictures of assorted loonies…
By Mark Seddon It was one of Labour's most successful - in terms of winning elections - leaders, Harold Wilson, who realised that the only way to lance the division in his party over Europe was to hold a referendum. That was back in 1975…
By Mark Seddon When I joined the Labour Party in Devizes, Wiltshire, at the tender age of fifteen, the party was largely opposed to what was then called the Common Market. In the referendum, called by Harold Wilson in 1974, Labour had…
