In the Ancient Greek Polis how else did the people make decisions about social behaviour? VALUES are IT! I recently read an account of an interview with Yvette Cooper, she…
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1. We have 650 members of the House of Commons. Jeremy Corbyn is trying to persuade them to agree that participation in war must be subject to their democratic vote.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Rather than write a conventional review of her very long and detailed autobiography I decided to say something about where I placed her and her values in what increasingly looks…
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Starmer is now thinking about taking off the label TERRORIST from a group and changing it to FRIEND.
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…
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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…
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There we were in the senate room of University College London sitting at a big round table. Outside the door, keeping guard in a sentry box on wheels was the…
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