PAUL SAFFER watches the Beatles, Clement Attlee and David Frost on the BBC election coverage. Continue reading
Tag Archives: James Callaghan
Election night highlights: 1997
PAUL SAFFER celebrates the top ten TV moments of election night 20 years ago. Continue reading
‘Not a public-school boy’: A press portrait of David Davis
ALWYN TURNER on the life and career of the man who Tony Benn said was too left-wing for New Labour. Continue reading
Owen Smith: The end is Nye
DAN ATKINSON isn’t convinced by the Pontypridd hero of the Partido Revolucionario Institucional. Continue reading
Labour leadership elections: Part 2
Continuing ALWYN TURNER’s history of the post-war Labour Party, seen through leadership elections past (1976-88). Continue reading
Labour leadership elections: Part 1
ALWYN TURNER’s history of the post-war Labour Party, seen through the ghosts of leadership elections past 1955-63. Continue reading
Tomorrow belongs to May
Is Theresa May really John Major in a skirt? For the sake of the country, let’s hope so. Continue reading
‘Labour: the road to oblivion’
The Labour Party in 1979, torn between voters, members and MPs. Continue reading
The next prime minister
Who should lead the nation, and will they have democratic legitimacy? Continue reading
Referendum ad hominem
For SAM HARRISON, the referendum choice is not which future, but whose. Continue reading
The Regina monologues
Her Majesty’s a pretty nice girl, but PAUL SAFFER thinks she ought to have a bit more to say. Continue reading
Old King Log: The rise of James Callaghan
ALWYN TURNER remembers the Labour Party’s leadership election in 1976. Continue reading
