Michael Foot

Patrick Barkham on Phil Woolas's immigration stance: 'You can't come in'

Phil Woolas points to a framed photograph on his office wall. "There's me pictured with God." Taken when the immigration minister was an aspiring MP, the photograph shows Woolas with huge glasses and a beatific grin as he...

Socialism, Reformism and Democracy [A 1994 debate between AWL and former Labour Leader Michael...

DO OFFlClAL Labour politics offer any real hope today? Such was the question in debate before a packed audience at London's Conway Hall last Wednesday, 9 March, when John 'Mahony [Sean Matgamna]], editor of Socialist Organiser,...

Jeremy Warner: It's tough reflating the economy when there's no money

"We must be fast and heavy handed", China said over the weekend in announcing a $586bn stimulus to boost flagging economic activity. With its vast current account surplus and mountainous capital reserves, China has more than...

Wars may come and go. But our debt to those who sacrificed their lives remains for ever

Anyone who was a part of it would have to be at least 108 by now. Astonishingly, there are still three men who fit the bill, three survivors who were in uniform 90 years ago as the First World War drew to a close.

John Naughton: Poorly connected Republicans went down the YouTube

A few days ago we had the extraordinary spectacle of a Republican presidential candidate complaining that his rival had more money to spend on TV advertising than he had. To those of us who grew up in an era when conservatives...

Michael Gove: Hangover waiting to happen

Published Date: 09 November 2008 THURSDAY night was Gordon's moment. The Salmond leap in the polls is over and the nationalist threat to sitting Labour MPs must be subsiding. A slice of soft Lib Dem support is returning to...

Interview: Michael Foot

In 1983 Michael Foot Labour into a general election with a manifesto dubbed "the longest suicide note in history". One proposal, to nationalise banks, seems rather prescient I’ve just arrived at Hampstead Tube station. I’m...

A Tale of Two Nations: How the UK is Influenced and Shaped by US Presidential Elections , Gerry...

In an OK essay marking the US election, Gerry Hassan looks at how past presidential elections have played out on this side of the Atlantic. This is a momentous week for democracy, the future of America and the world, but it is...

Anne Crossman: Widow and literary executor of the Labour minister Dick Crossman

Anne Crossman was a person of considerable interest in her own right, and not merely as the third wife of the Labour cabinet minister Dick Crossman, whose controversial political diaries, published after his dea th in 1974,...

Top regulator is to investigate GFSC

A FORMER Bank of England executive director will lead the inquiry into the Guernsey Financial Services Commission’s handling of the banking crisis. GFSC commissioners have appointed … [visit site to read more]

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