DAN ATKINSON celebrates a Labour MP who repeatedly backed against the favourite and often won. Continue reading
Tag Archives: Austin Mitchell
‘A posh lot’: The birth of the SDP
ALWYN TURNER remembers the SDP – ‘the party of the future’, according to Barry from Auf Wiedersehen, Pet. Continue reading
Labourites in the vineyard
ALWYN TURNER remembers complaints in the 1980s about Tony Benn and ‘the elitism of activists’. Continue reading
Kicking sport into politics
Ex-footballer George Weah has just been elected president of Liberia – but where are Britain’s sporting politicos? PAUL SAFFER finds a few, but has to dig deep. Continue reading
‘It was not a happy period’
Is it really deja vu all over again? Some quotes from the Labour Party in the early 1980s. Continue reading
Style matters
PAUL SAFFER suspects the slickness of this year’s Conservative Party conference will speak louder than any words actually uttered there. Continue reading
Funny money for all? Jeremy Corbyn and ‘people’s QE’
DAN ATKINSON wonders whether ‘Corbynomics’ will send sterling the way of the Zim dollar. Continue reading
We don’t do politics
It’s not the voters who are anti politics, says ALWYN TURNER, it’s the politicians. Continue reading
Eastward Ho? Revisiting Britain’s ‘changed’ economic geography
DAN ATKINSON goes in search of eastern promise. Continue reading
