How British Prime Ministers like Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak must dream of getting the adoration by many journalists that...
Politics
The first Thatcher government of 1979 to 1983 embraced an economic theory called monetarism. The leading proponent was Professor Milton...
2022 has proven to be the year when the trade union movement rose from a long slumber. Days lost due...
We are now seeing the return of the demon of inflation - a monster we thought had been slain thirty...
I recently came across the record of a debate in the House of Lords on 18 December 1986 that took...
1979 was a general election year in the UK and Margaret Thatcher was about to become Prime Minister. Tensions were...
In this series of blog posts I'm looking at the problem of the extreme Right in the 1970s and the...
So here we are in 2022. Some of us may be surprised we made it this far. And of course,...
From 1989 for five years I worked as a financial journalist full-time on a magazine called Money Week - and...
Let's get in a time machine and go back forty years to the Labour Party of the 1980s and see...