Harold Wilson

                   
bbc.co.uk: Dock workers at Felixstowe in 1979 bbc.co.uk

What crisis?

bbc.co.uk     36 mins ago   1 related          

Trade unionists are gathering again this weekend for the TUC just as they did 30 years ago at the congress that triggered the Winter of Discontent. Leicester Square was dubbed Fester Square during the winter of 1979 Once...                    

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What Works Doesn't Work · Ross McKibbin: Politics without Ideas

lrb.co.uk     02-Sep-2008   1 related          

In 1964, Harold Wilson described the record of the (outgoing) Conservative government as '13 wasted years'. If the present Parliament lasts its full term - as seems likely - the electorate will be asked to pass judgment...                    

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Answers Please

iaindale.blogspot.com     02-Sep-2008   49 related          

Here's another one for Labour apologists to explain. If our economy is so strong, why is it that our economy is the only one of the G7 economies likely to meet the technical definition of going into recession, according...                    

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oxfordcitylife.co.uk: Our Friends in the North @ Oxford Playhouse oxfordcitylife.co.uk

THEATRE: Our Friends in the North @ Oxford Playhouse

oxfordcitylife.co.uk     01-Sep-2008          

Write your own review Two-thirds of the way through this production, I find my notes read: "Grim, spare." Darren Tunstall as Weir, Joe Renton as Black, Craig Conway as Geordie As the long (3hr 40min) evening draws to a...                    

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marketwatch.com: David Marsh marketwatch.com

Marsh on Monday: Economic malaise comes back to bite Britain's Brown

marketwatch.com     01-Sep-2008          

Once again, an ambitious ex-chancellor of the exchequer takes over for a retiring prime minister and is hit by economic malaise. For Gordon Brown, it will be a slow process, and the outcome, unfortunately for him, seems...                    

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Why did Alistair Darling choose 1948?

timesonline.co.uk     01-Sep-2008          

Why did he pick on 1948? When the Chancellor, Alistair Darling, in a curiously likeable interview, bluntly said that the economic downturn was “arguably the worst in 60 years”, why did he choose 60? He could have opted...                    

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Still some embarrassment with the Tory brand in the North

libdemblogs.co.uk     31-Aug-2008          

Canvassing yesterday in Farnley and Wortley in west Leeds where there is a by-election on September 18th. We were overlapping the Tory candidate who with a couple of chums was delivering his leaflet. One resident, having...                    

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Margaret Thatcher. Should We Know!

paulburgin.blogspot.com     27-Aug-2008   1 related          

A no of people seem to be making news of this, although it has to be said that there were rumours going around already.It reminds me of Harold Wilson's last years. I remember being a teenager and seeing him and his wife...                    

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THE WEALTH OF POLITICIANS & EVERYBODY

a-place-to-stand.blogspot.com     27-Aug-2008          

Jerry Pournelle put up this comment I sent as a response in a discussion on how wealthy politicians get nowadays, all legally. We are getting the same problem here - Harold Wilson did not get particularly rich & his son...                    

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Stephen King: Zimbabwe and Jamaica run away with the economically adjusted Olympics

independent.co.uk     26-Aug-2008   490 related          

As we preen ourselves over our Olympic achievements, it's worth pausing to consider Britain's amazing haul of gold medals in the light of the broader economic context. Relative to our nation's population and wealth, how...                    

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