Monday, February 10, 2014

Fightback

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I admit to being at the moment, quite literally, an armchair critic – sitting comfortably in my armchair and critiquing the world. Foc...
Saturday, February 8, 2014

Consumerism as the new political force

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It’s appropriate that the first book I picked from my shelves after Denis Healey’s gripping insights into the issues confronting the UK ...
Wednesday, February 5, 2014

The managerial revolution

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Denis Healey’s Memoirs ( Time of my Life ) may be almost 25 years old but have not lose their power to inspire with age - 4 posts so far...
Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Ruling a Void

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OK - the last 2 posts gave the 10 golden rules for corrupting the political class – at least according to Anthony Jay the highly succe...

The hollowing out of Democracy

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Re-reading Denis Healey’s memoirs brought home to me how puny and spineless (“hollowed out” is perhaps the appropriate phrase) our current...
Monday, February 3, 2014

The slow, relentless corruption of the British political class

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Just how much Government has changed since 1945 comes through very vividly from reading (again) Denis Healey’s Memoirs which I wrote abo...
Sunday, February 2, 2014

The post-war British social democrats

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I’m cast back to the 1960s by the news of the death last week of the great folk-singer Pete Seeger  - at the age of 94. And to the liv...
Friday, January 31, 2014

In Memoriam

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1 February is Remembrance Day here in Bulgaria for Victims of Communism  -  but has been so only since 2011. September 9 th (1944) is the...