As Winston Churchill, the Chancellor of the 1920s, memorably once put it: “For a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity ...
However, a legal “right” is only a right if it can be enforced. If a person cannot access our courts or defend a claim for want of money, knowledge or capacity then, as Judge Sturgess famously said, ...
CAMBRIDGE spy Kim Philby declared he would have done it all again after finally confessing to being a Russian agent for years ...
Clement Attlee lacked most of the qualities that make for ... can both be seen as expressions of the kind of socialism Attlee stood for. Attlee was deeply and patriotically English. Lord’s cricket ...
The main reason Clement Attlee clung on for over three-and-a-half years after ... and acquired significant power in a party now largely stripped of all vestiges of socialism. He ran the triumphant ...
“The UK really has to choose between the Europe economic model of more socialism and the US model ... I reject it utterly. [Clement] Attlee did not choose between allies.
Five years since Jeremy Corbyn resigned as Labour leader, the British left is in a difficult place. Keir Starmer’s remodeling ...
Labour’s 1945 manifesto committed the party to socialism and promised the creation ... he should turn to Clement Attlee for inspiration. Attlee was faced with a national debt of around 250 ...
The other example concerns Clement Attlee, then Leader of the Labour Party and ... in which his willingness to speak his mind infuriated not only people in the anti-socialist and non-socialist camp, ...
The year began with an ITV drama, Mr Bates vs The Post Office, which shoved the story of Britain’s biggest ever miscarriage of justice into every living room, hot on the heels of 14 years of heroic ...