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The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
I have not been a member of a political party since my 20s. But I was brought up in a very political household with a mother who was passionately committed to the Labour party. One of my earliest political memories was as an eight-year-old in 1964 listening to my mother who believed, quite simply, that the election of Harold Wilson's government meant the world was going to be a better...
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NY Protest Calendar (Beta) (Free subscription) | yesterday
... of life. The islands were, and still are, a British crown colony. In the 1960s, the government of Harold Wilson struck a secret deal with the United States to hand over Diego Garcia. The Americans demanded that the is lands be “swept” and “sanitized”. Unknown to Parliament and to the US Congress, the British government plotted with Washington to expel the entire population - in secrecy...
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BBC News (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
The announcement was first made to the Cabinet on the morning of 16 March. Before he announced the news to the Cabinet, he informed Chancellor Denis Healey, Foreign Secretary James Callaghan, and his own deputy, House of Commons leader Edward Short - and formally told the Queen that morning. I have not wavered in this decision and it is irrevocable Harold Wilson
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Curly's Corner Shop, the blog! (Free subscription) | 08/17/2008
Team GB exceeding expectations It seems that our Olympians are exceeding the nation’s expectations in the medal table and are building a firm foundation for the London Games in 2012 after their “great haul of China”. This may play out well for the government, if it learns not to crow and take credit where it is not due. Harold Wilson was returned to power on a huge uplift in the “feel...
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Daily Mail (Free subscription) | 08/16/2008
... being bad under argaret Thatcher and John Major was purely because of the mess the economy from Harold Wilson and James Callaghan. This lot of buffoons inherited a very healthy economy in 1997 and now history has repeated itself under Bliar and Brown. Heaven helps who takes over ehry are booted out, it will be an unenviable task.- Mrs Janine Clark, Doncaster, England, 15/8/2008 18:27...
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Daily Mail on Sunday (Free subscription) | 08/16/2008
... being bad under argaret Thatcher and John Major was purely because of the mess the economy from Harold Wilson and James Callaghan. This lot of buffoons inherited a very healthy economy in 1997 and now history has repeated itself under Bliar and Brown. Heaven helps who takes over ehry are booted out, it will be an unenviable task.- Mrs Janine Clark, Doncaster, England, 15/8/2008 18:27...
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Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
HIS walk on to the stage is more of a slow shuffle and that's the only thing that makes you remember that he's 83. Because, as for the rest of it, Harold Wilson was ri
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 08/16/2008
... law by buying a work by a Tate trustee.Sir Nicholas, 62, the son of a Labour health minister under Harold Wilson, was appointed in 1988 on a seven-year contract, renewed in 1995 and 2002. Concerns were expressed this year that trustees hoped to push his contract renewal through "on the quiet", with no other candidate put up for the public post. A Tate spokeswoman said the decision...
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
... he need look no further than the story of Edward Heath in the early 1970s.When Heath lost to Harold Wilson in 1974, he did so despite presiding over economic growth of some 7.3pc the previous year. It transpired, of course, that the economic vitality of the UK in the early '70s was very much an illusion, but at the time the main clue was not GDP growth but the drop in the value of...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
... wore whenever he made out with a young actress in his capacity as minister for the arts. With Harold Wilson it was pipes, with Maggie it was her armour-plated handbag. Yet Prezza and croquet has a suitably New Labour upwardly-mobile feel to it. Vicious and unscrupulous too. Wasn't it Prezza who said the day job made him middle-class?
