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