Cliff Jones

That was a trade union slogan in response to Churchill’s budget of 1925. When he delivered that budget in the House of Commons it was met with cheers by stupid…

The rich and the powerful were digging through our social foundations in order to extract what they could turn into profit for themselves. If you were not rich and not…

Like a huge number of people I felt that we had suffered so much from Thatcher and her Favourite Son. Domestically we were discarding the achievements of the Attlee administrations…

I can’t. But it is still with us. And I am not sure that it has changed so much either. What, perhaps, has happened is that it has lost its…

Do you now understand diplomacy as practised by our rulers? Of course you don’t, you are merely a bemused peasant who does not even read the Daily Torygraph where all…

Please let us not be scared of the word. In the 1780s academics in the University of Goettingen were looking for a word to stand for a family of languages…

In 1971 the Politics Association was formed. It held its first conference in Didsbury and I was elected to its Executive Committee. All of its members were teachers of government…

I think that the quotation came into my head because I was remembering the points made by two historians. Denis Mack Smith was the university tutor of my school history…

I have written a fair bit about the fracking of society in the U.K. from 2010 onwards by the Tories. But now I see the extent to which the same…

Ha’aretz has a long article about religion being “the hottest trend in Israel”. Particularly among young people. Maybe ‘religiosity’ should be the word. My opinion is that if what the…