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Film review: The Spirit of '45 (U)
Liverpool :: United Kingdom | 2 months ago
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The best part of Ken Loach's documentary on the social revolution born of the 1945 landslide election is the contemporary footage, of Britain in recovery from the ravages of war and making tentative steps towards a dream of equality. There's a hero,
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Bermondsey by-election 1983: homophobia, hatred, smears and xenophobia
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 3 months ago
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Peter Tatchell The Eastleigh by-election may be getting a bit nasty, but it's nothing compared to the nastiness of the Bermondsey by-election, which took place 30 years ago today. In terms of political dirty tricks and tabloid smears, it holds the
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Iris Murdoch and an enduring love affair
Oxford :: United Kingdom | 9 months ago
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I think I was in love with you from Seaforth days,' she wrote to Foot. 'And this has never stopped.' Photograph: Jane Bown In The Black Prince , her great novel about the perils of love, Iris Murdoch has her main character say: "What dangerous
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Anne Robinson: My parents supported Enoch Powell - but that doesn't mean they were racist
London :: United Kingdom | 12 months ago
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Michael Foot and Enoch Powell. A socialist and a Tory, but significantly both fiercely independent and hard to pigeonhole. She singled them out because they excelled in what mattered to her most oratory and advocacy. Powell and Foot's flair, she
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Bob Edwards: Journalist who edited the 'Daily Express', 'The People' and the 'Sunday Mirror'
Kuala Lumpur :: Malaysia | 12 months ago
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News in pictures On Facebook From the blogs The results of new research into every significant injury suffered by every Premier League footballe... With the Jubilee weekend edging ever nearer Rob Williams offers some help for those Royalists who ju.
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Kenneth O Morgan: James Callaghan ... A Great PM Who, 100 Years On, Still Stands Tall
Portsmouth :: VA :: USA | 1 year ago
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a Life (1997), Michael Foot: a Life (2007) and Ages of Reform (2011). He is a member of the Labour party and has been a life peer since 2000. Jim Callaghan, born 100 years ago this week, is our most underestimated prime minister.
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MRD Foot
Soe :: Indonesia | over 1 year ago
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Throughout the conflict he had served in the army, and put that experience to good use in his later career. He established his reputation with the publication of his official history The SOE in France (1966), writing as MRD rather than Michael Foot
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Co-operative deal saves Tribune
London :: United Kingdom | over 1 year ago
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A left-wing newspaper which counts George Orwell and Michael Foot among its former staff has been saved from closure. Tribune, which was founded by two Labour MPs in 1937, would have gone to press for the final time next week, had a deal not been
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The Eurosceptic isolationists are in the saddle | Denis MacShane
London :: United Kingdom | over 1 year ago
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The Eurosceptic isolationists are in the saddle Peter Oborne's pamphlet makes outlandish claims about a pro-European conspiracy to control the British media The Centre for Policy Studies 'must be delighted to get a journalist of Oborne's standing on
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A Funny Thing Happened On My Way To The Dispatch Box
London :: United Kingdom | almost 2 years ago
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Nick Clegg has been making free with his witticisms Nick Clegg, the Deputy Prime Minister, managed to both amuse and amaze his audience this week when, speaking at a lunch for the parliamentary press gallery, he told two jokes...Typically, the jokes
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