| 单词 | Labour |
| 例句 | By 1906, even the best-guarded political bastions had been stormed—twenty-nine seats in Parliament had fallen to the Labour Party—sending spasms of anxiety through English high society. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Before his second week was out, the part in Love’s Labour’s was given to Chris Beeston, and Nick was back upstairs with us, practicing his swordsmanship. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z He puts on his tie and his cap and goes to the Labour Exchange to sign for the dole. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Labour Exchange is a place for men not for women taking the money from under their noses. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Of course ’e was referring to the Labour Party, you understand.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Dad tells Grandma it sThursday and he has to go to the Labour Exchange for the dole and then down to the undertaker to bring the mourning carriage and the coffin. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Later, Dad goes to the Labour Exchange for the dole. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The morning after Oliver’s burial Dad went to the Labour Exchange to sign and collect the week’s dole, nineteen shillings and sixpence. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z We’re getting that room and to make sure she’s going to the Labour Exchange on Thursday to stand in the queue to take the dole money the minute it’s handed to Dad. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z He drinks his tea in the morning, signs for the dole at the Labour Exchange, reads the papers at the Carnegie Library, goes for his long walks far into the country. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z But as we were climbing onto the barge, she came running down the landing stairs, clothed in her costume from Love’s Labour’s Lost, her skirts lifted so high we could see her ankles. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z Neither the government, nor the opposition Labour party, has issued a policy statement on the subject, and there has been no debate on the issue in Parliament. As Europe Returns Artifacts, Britain Stays Silent 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z Labour has just won a crushing landslide and one of that victory's architects is grey with gloom. The Alastair Campbell Diaries Volume One: Prelude to Power 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z Photograph: BBC/Hat Trick I was once involved with a stunt this newspaper carried out at a Labour party conference in Bournemouth. TV review: The Revolution Will Be Televised 2012-08-22T21:30:02Z Joy Wilkinson's Acting Leader presents a baleful Margaret Beckett, almost forgotten as a contender for the Labour party leadership, though reputed to be one of the hardest interviewees to crack. Women, Power and Politics; Through a Glass Darkly 2010-06-19T23:15:00Z Certainly putting him on the backbenches would have created a centre of opposition around which Old Labour forces could coalesce with the aim of ousting Tony. The enemy within: how Machiavelli would have dealt with Gordon Brown 2010-10-09T05:59:00Z Despite the cuts, Dundee will be one of the most fiercely contested election battlegrounds, with the Scottish National party, which runs Scotland's minority government, hoping to wrest control of the city from Labour. Plans for Dundee V&A remain in the balance 2011-01-12T18:18:37Z In Britain in the 1980s Miliband managed to convince himself that Labour, which he had always bitterly attacked, might, under the influence of Tony Benn, turn into a genuinely socialist party. Ralph Miliband and sons 2010-09-06T07:00:00Z In the face of popular passions about immigration and the European Union, the Labour party has bobbed and tacked without taking a clear line. Michael Gove's history wars 2013-07-13T07:00:05Z It also rounded off the New Labour era with a perfect circularity. Gordon Brown's exit was worthy of Shakespeare 2010-05-12T18:00:00Z "This is what has happened with Labour over the last 20 to 30 years," he said. Half of Labour candidates in marginal seats are Westminster insiders 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z There was another attempt to auction the work, known as Slave Labour, after it reappeared in Miami, but the sale was cancelled after protests from Haringey Council. AUDIO: Should 'missing' Banksy work be sold? 2013-05-16T09:59:02Z The most politically powerful moments are when Brown delivers speeches in which he says what he really means about the veniality of big business and the slickness of the New Labour machine. The election, live on stage! 2010-05-06T15:04:00Z Based on Shakespeare’s “Love’s Labour’s Lost,” the musical transferred to the West End, though Dyer struggled to get directing work afterward. With an ‘Othello’ of His Own, a Director Comes Full Circle 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z And referring to Livingstone's promise to bring conductors back to London buses, he said: "I not only keep my own promises - but Labour promises as well." Boris Johnson: the best jokes from his conference speech 2012-10-09T11:33:03Z The Ministry of Labour is surveying the site and will produce a report on the accident. Stage falls at Ottawa Bluesfest; 8 injured 2011-07-18T18:00:38Z But Gould never gave Labour the tools to change the political culture. Philip Gould: An Unfinished Life, edited by Dennis Kavanagh - review 2012-09-26T07:30:04Z Labour is the party for equality and for reform in the Lords. General election 2010: the art of the political poster 2010-04-27T07:00:00Z Chris Bryant, the shadow work and pensions minister, said Labour would support George's bill but reiterated that the party wanted to scrap the bedroom tax should it win next year's general election. Bedroom tax bill splits coalition as Lib-Lab pact forces second reading 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z That bid failed this month, though not before drawing what The Guardian newspaper called “a barrage of abuse,” with both Conservative and Labour politicians publicly making transphobic remarks. Eddie Izzard Plays Which Part in ‘Great Expectations’? All of Them 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z Labour won a thumping Commons majority and used it to introduce the welfare state, nationalise key industries and guarantee full employment. Ken Loach's Spirit of '45 is a fantasy 2013-03-08T07:00:32Z The film shows Mo bringing a refreshingly human element to late 1990s New Labour, an era infamous for its obsession with political spin. Young arts critics competition 2010: the winning entries 2010-10-20T22:00:00Z Labour believes the coalition's attempts to promote social mobility backfired yesterday when Nick Clegg was forced to admit his father had helped him launch his career. Labour must win 'mainstream majority' by promoting social mobility 2011-04-06T08:00:03Z The documentary illustrates how under New Labour, individualism gnawed at the collectivist muscle, and the private sector moved deeper into the very last of the nationalised industries, the NHS. The Spirit of '45: where did it go? 2013-03-02T16:00:02Z London’s Gay Hussar, where generations of Labour M.P.’s have been spooning up chilled cherry soup, chicken paprikash and other once-exotic Hungarian fare in caricature-covered Soho surroundings since the 1950s, is, frankly, dowdy. | Under the Spell of Old Restaurants 2013-12-07T00:32:45Z It was all the more shocking, given that this was a Labour council thinking about terminating a gallery focused on the legacy of Morris – a man who founded the aesthetic tradition within the Labour movement. Don't patronise urban communities – give them the William Morris Gallery 2013-06-06T08:00:01Z He took part in a Labour party political broadcast before the election. The Saturday interview: Bill Bailey ? 'It's genius, evil genius' 2010-12-18T00:16:00Z In plays like “This House” and “Labour of Love,” Mr. Graham has focused on parliamentary politics. He’s Playing Rupert Murdoch as More Than a ‘Pantomime Villain’ 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z This put Orwell out of step not only with most of the Labour party, but with Labour’s very reason for existence. The war that made Orwell 2014-01-11T15:00:00Z He cites the “duty escalator”, introduced by the Labour government in 2008, pushing up duty on alcohol by 2% above inflation year on year. How secondhand drinking ruins lives: ‘Every family has been touched by this’ 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z Born in Worcestershire, Perry is eerily close to the "Worcester woman" fought over by both Tories and Labour since 1997 – a middle-aged working mother with a middle income, living in middle England. Claire Perry: a new breed of iron lady 2012-05-27T20:53:51Z It is that neither of the two contenders has come to terms with the bankruptcy of the New Labour project in which each of them was involved. Ralph Miliband and sons 2010-09-06T07:00:00Z That snub might resonate for years among Labour voters. History in the making: Kate, William are wed 2011-04-29T11:43:13Z This is what Labour needs to learn about culture: the modern does not equal the radical. Tate Modern's birthday was a soulless celebration 2010-05-17T10:49:00Z Labour housing ministers such as Yvette Cooper spent millions on consultants trying to demolish 19th-century streets in Merseyside and elsewhere, on the patronising grounds that old buildings were too good for working-class northerners. Excalibur's castles built from postwar dreams must not be demolished 2011-01-06T21:00:04Z Luciana Berger, a Labour Member of Parliament for Liverpool, who is Jewish, said that the comments made her feel “unwelcome in my own party.” The English Fetishization of Irony 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z A Labour party spokesperson later clarified that Corbyn was not actually in the process of becoming a vegan – giving up eggs, dairy and animal products – but simply in the process of eating more vegan food. Hail seitan! How vegan food got down’n’dirty 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z On the way home I called my old man and told him I had voted Labour. Looking back on New Labour: Peter Akinti 2010-04-03T23:07:00Z First, it was Neil Kinnock, whom he helped to rescue Labour from the pit into which it had descended in the early 1980s. The Third Man by Peter Mandelson 2010-07-17T23:05:00Z But, if TV journalism continues to observe this distinction, the Labour opposition will lose 2-1 in every piece. Question Time 2010-05-13T07:00:00Z Both Labour and the Conservative-led government that succeeded it have pledged tighter border controls to limit numbers of unskilled migrants, asylum-seekers and illegal immigrants. British xenophobia on the rise 2013-01-03T21:17:00Z On the same day, the men of the 9th Battalion revolted as they had been forced to work as labourers, including cleaning the latrines of the Italian Labour Corps. Letters: At the going down of the sun 2013-05-24T20:00:18Z But while the leadership contender defined Labour's problem, the new Labour leader has so far done little to redefine the party. Ed: The Milibands and the Making of a Labour Leader by Mehdi Hasan and James Macintyre - review 2011-07-15T21:55:11Z The Labour politician, who represents Hampstead and Kilburn, suggested that her parliamentary colleagues lack the discipline that actors need to succeed. Glenda Jackson says MPs wouldn't cut it in the theatre world 2013-01-22T13:32:26Z “Our Labour” is first a reference to my family and the work that my family has done in the auto plants in Detroit. A DNA Test Led Yashua Klos to New Connections and New Art 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z Both Love's Labour's Lost and Love's Labour's Won, usually known as Much Ado About Nothing, will be set in the same country house before and after the war. RSC double bill to commemorate WWI 2014-02-04T14:02:23Z She called on Harman to say what Labour would do on philanthropy, lottery money, possible Labour council cuts and central government spending. Tories hit back at Labour over arts funding 2013-07-03T16:01:45Z The Labour party, regarding all private profit as "obscene", was, he claims, increasingly out of kilter with working-class voters. Modernity Britain: Opening the Box by David Kynaston – review 2013-06-15T07:01:01Z "A couple of seasons at the Old Vic and a stint or two at Oxford and I could swing one fairly easily with Labour in power," he muses. The Richard Burton Diaries edited by Chris Williams – review 2012-11-29T08:00:03Z "Don't let him take Britain back to the 1980s," said Labour's poster. Ashes to Ashes ends and everything becomes less clear 2010-05-21T21:01:00Z Payne is actively involved in her community, as the chair of the local Labour party branch and a friend of the community hospital. 'I miss people terribly': the growing pain of older people's isolation 2020-05-17T04:00:00Z Obviously, this doesn't have the suspense value of contemporary counts, as we know who wins – Edward Heath's Conservatives, in something of an upset of Harold Wilson's Labour party. BBC Election 70 2010-10-09T05:45:00Z Partial success allowed the post-war Labour government to fund its welfare state and National Health Service. A man for all seasons 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z You may recall too the increasingly antique Digital Economy Act, a piece of legislation rushed through by the last Labour government, which included provisions for cutting off the internet connections of serial pirates. This half-baked, half-hearted, slow-motion anti-piracy strategy does music no favours 2011-08-07T20:19:00Z The revelation of the cost of restructuring Mr Cable's department was seized on by Labour. Cable Murdoch gaffe 'cost ?300k' 2011-02-18T17:32:01Z Whatever the reason, the arts and culture are prominent in the Labour manifesto to a quite unprecedented extent - at least as long as I have been reading Labour manifestos. The Labour manifesto and the arts 2010-04-12T14:52:00Z Like the US Republicans, the Tories branded inheritance tax as "death tax"; neither Gould nor any other of New Labour's much vaunted team of spinners offered an effective defence. Philip Gould: An Unfinished Life, edited by Dennis Kavanagh - review 2012-09-26T07:30:04Z “When you come to power,” she warns the Labour leader, “you must rehabilitate the UK’s reputation in Latin America!” Bravery, courage, strength – why Pamela Anderson thinks that Julian Assange is sexy 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z Free entrance to the country's leading museums was one of the previous Labour government's most popular policies, credited with bringing tens of millions more people through their doors. Labour MP Tristram Hunt calls for national collections to charge entry fees 2011-03-06T00:15:12Z And his most self-sacrificing act in a life free of selfishness was – when fulfilling years of writing and reflection beckoned – to agree to become leader of the Labour party at the age of 67. The Michael Foot I knew, by Neil Kinnock 2010-12-12T00:06:00Z "The short answer to that is – no," Cameron said to laughter, and shouts from Labour MPs of "timber". Forests sell-off abandoned as Cameron orders U-turn 2011-02-16T21:18:08Z Taking these opportunities has helped me win back my sense of personal power, the sense of integrity, confidence and inner peace that I lacked when I lived a life governed by New Labour. Looking back on New Labour: Peter Akinti 2010-04-03T23:07:00Z Labour will support the arts – and support the arts community. Anish Kapoor and Antony Gormley donate works for Labour auction 2013-03-20T13:25:12Z He made sure that these reports of his arrest reached Kaunda, who was in England at the time, sponsored by the British Labour Party to learn about the parliamentary system. The Zambian “Afronaut” Who Wanted to Join the Space Race 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z His hardest gig so far was a year ago, in front of a few hundred truckers and their spouses at a Labour Club Christmas bash. The Guide's 1,000th issue - 1994-1999 2013-01-05T00:02:00Z Their exaltation of working-class traditions over middle-class values led to the persistence in the Labour party of an increasingly sham proletarian identity, he argues. Modernity Britain: Opening the Box by David Kynaston – review 2013-06-15T07:01:01Z Already a pacifist and member of the Labour Party, she was delighted to meet with Gandhi as well as politicians and anticolonial activists. The Power Women of Mecklenburgh Square 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z You breathe out with the breath of a thousand potatoes, and prepare yourself for the traditional digestif: an elderly relative explaining why the Labour party is antisemitic. Scenes in the life of a liberal Jew | Eva Wiseman 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z The most surprising thing is their prominence, unprecedented in any recent Labour election manifesto. Labour's manifesto steals the arts policy spotlight 2010-04-13T22:15:00Z Although she has never said so, few in the party would be surprised if she had, like her fellow MP Louise Mensch, toyed with a Labour vote. Claire Perry: a new breed of iron lady 2012-05-27T20:53:51Z Speaking at a Liberal Democrat party conference event, Coogan welcomed Clegg's comments on Sunday when he signalled he would work with Labour to implement the recommendations so long as they were "proportionate". Coogan fears press reforms delay 2012-09-25T19:47:00Z "Vote Labour, boy," he said, and then the sharp edges of the tribal marks on each of his cheeks would move. Looking back on New Labour: Peter Akinti 2010-04-03T23:07:00Z I put them there to remind me why I'm a Labour supporter. General election 2010: the art of the political poster 2010-04-27T07:00:00Z Was it New Labour's failure to get a grip on London's crack epidemic? Looking back on New Labour: Peter Akinti 2010-04-03T23:07:00Z Based on newspaper columns originally, it began transmitting in 1998 and, if you included the films, outlasted New Labour. Sex and shopping are no worse than gadgets or guns 2010-05-31T06:00:00Z Ken Loach on The Spirit of '45 - video The Spirit of '45 is Ken Loach's new documentary about the 1945 general election and the creation of the welfare state by Clement Attlee's Labour government. Ken Loach on The Spirit of '45 - video 2013-03-13T14:01:00Z When Labour came to power, she contacted Blair and, later, Brown, both of whom invited her to Downing Street. Doyenne of Irish fiction 2011-02-06T00:05:42Z It’s 1924, and the Labour Party has carjacked the chariot of power. 'Downton Abbey' Recap: Do We Really Want Anything to Change? 2015-01-04T05:00:00Z Kjær dreams one day of becoming a politician with the Labour party. Utøya: after the massacre 2013-04-28T07:00:03Z But now, after a five-year long initiative partly headed by a former Labour energy minister, Brian Wilson, Harris tweed is enjoying a renaissance few had predicted. Harris tweed returns to global boutiques after islands' renaissance 2012-11-09T16:45:33Z The Labour leader used the example of the drug Humira, used to treat Crohn’s disease and rheumatoid arthritis. Jeremy Corbyn reveals dossier 'proving NHS up for sale' 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z Under the rules introduced by the last Labour government for foundation hospitals, the amount of private income was capped at the level reached in 2006. Income from private patients soars at NHS hospital trusts 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z Is Labour getting just a little less wary of celebrating British arts and culture? The Labour manifesto and the arts 2010-04-12T14:52:00Z The comedian and Labour supporter Eddie Izzard and European and world championship gold medal winner Kriss Akabusi today launch the yes campaign, with the referendum five weeks away. Cameron steps up AV attack while celebrities rally to the cause 2011-04-01T23:26:29Z I will speak on Grenfell or the Labour party – things that are close to home. 'All the hood rats would jam with us': Grandmaster Flash, AJ Tracey and other artists on the generation gap 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z And it’s a paradox especially with “Love’s Labour’s Lost,” a work in which — more than in any other by Shakespeare — the wordplay is the thing. Theater Review: ‘Love’s Labour’s Lost,’ at Hudson Valley Shakespeare Fest 2012-07-31T22:20:55Z Teased that he should run up a suit for one of the Labour whips, Weatherill ripostes that he doesn't work with synthetic fibres. This House recalls the years when Britain really was a nation in crisis 2012-10-13T23:06:33Z Under New Labour, argue the reformers, the fragmentation only accelerated. Will anyone vote for AV in the electoral reform referendum? 2011-04-08T23:09:12Z That’s how we first and last see the would-be lovers of the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival’s “Love’s Labour’s Lost,” as silent, graceful figures who complement and complete a sylvan summer landscape. Theater Review: ‘Love’s Labour’s Lost,’ at Hudson Valley Shakespeare Fest 2012-07-31T22:20:55Z Four Labour candidates in winnable seats are also related to former politicians. Half of Labour candidates in marginal seats are Westminster insiders 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z "This is a new beginning, a new generation for Labour!" he told us. Labour watches the Eddie and Ed show 2010-09-29T18:17:00Z The obvious difference between then and now is that Labour staggered on as a minority government rather than try to form a coalition with another party. This House recalls the years when Britain really was a nation in crisis 2012-10-13T23:06:33Z However, for at least the last decade, that hasn't led many of them to identify with Labour. This week's new live comedy 2013-03-23T06:00:00Z Now she’s in for the high drama of Labour Party meetings, the thrash and cajoling of local politics. The Best Post Office Novel You Will Read Before the Election 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z The cartoon I liked the best was at the time of New Labour's manifesto being published in the 1997 election. Martin Rowson and Phill Jupitus: 'Cartoons are a kind of voodoo' 2013-01-28T17:15:26Z Grant, who won damages for phone hacking by Rupert Murdoch's now-defunct News of the World tabloid, said hacking victims supported a rival plan by the Liberal Democrats and the Labour party for stronger media measures. Rowling to UK govt: Don't let down hacking victims 2013-03-17T12:40:42Z The singer received a medal from the UN's International Labour Organisation last month, and she is also a global ambassador for Unicef. Shakira attacks Arizona immigration law 2010-04-30T09:10:00Z Far from throwing largesse at Stonehenge, New Labour dithered. Coalition's cuts are final betrayal of Stonehenge 2010-06-18T15:54:00Z “They had the Labour in Power people to ask,” he told Virginia Trioli. TV review: Whitlam: The Power and the Passion 2013-05-27T00:10:21Z He tells me that the myths that a bloated public sector and excessive spending under a Labour government are the prime cause of current austerity also need to be strenuously challenged. The Spirit of '45: where did it go? 2013-03-02T16:00:02Z For example, when the Labour government won a Commons division on top-up university fees by just five votes, Straw warned Blair not to push his luck too far. Last Man Standing by Jack Straw - review 2012-10-02T11:29:00Z We were in the pit and the message came down – 'Labour's won by a landslide!' The Spirit of '45: where did it go? 2013-03-02T16:00:02Z Brown resigned after last week's election went against his Labour Party. British actor sees Brown as Shakespearean tragedy 2010-05-13T01:31:00Z Tony said lightheartedly: "Oh, I guess I will talk about the need to jump a generation in the Labour party so you don't become leader." The enemy within: how Machiavelli would have dealt with Gordon Brown 2010-10-09T05:59:00Z So on the remotest chance that Geri or George refuses to play ball, it would do just as well for Labour to mock it up and use it themselves. The Tory fundraising ball that lays bare the crisis facing Celebrity Conservatism 2013-02-07T18:50:15Z Labour officials are delighted by the response to the invitation to the public to pitch, which they claim demonstrates that they understand the power of the internet far better than their political opponents. David Cameron depicted as Gene Hunt in Labour poster 2010-04-02T20:16:00Z Britain's leading museums and art galleries should start charging entrance fees, according to the historian and Labour MP Tristram Hunt. Labour MP Tristram Hunt calls for national collections to charge entry fees 2011-03-06T00:15:12Z His most overt political film was a wonderful Capra-esque broadcast for the Labour Party, encouraging us to vote. 'The day I shared a pint or five with Pete Postlethwaite' 2011-01-06T15:48:31Z Charles Booth was a British social scientist and reformer who, from 1886 to 1903, undertook a massive investigation called “Life and Labour of the People in London.” Map Quests 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z That feat of survival, in many ways rather heroic, was down to the Labour whips. This House recalls the years when Britain really was a nation in crisis 2012-10-13T23:06:33Z It's time for the Labour party and its allies, locally and nationally, to lead a dynamic and inventive campaign. Letters: Beecham's bitter pill for opponents of arts cuts 2012-12-21T20:59:02Z If instead of trying to ride the media tiger, New Labour had kept its distance? The Burden of Power: Countdown to Iraq by Alastair Campbell – review 2012-06-21T07:00:01Z The task of governing required New Labour to make concessions. Looking back on New Labour: Peter Akinti 2010-04-03T23:07:00Z Labour's conference was still capable of doing something unscripted. What if John Smith had lived? 2011-04-07T20:00:15Z Even the Labour leader, Harold Wilson, backed them, wishing the protesters “all the success”. Roy Hackett: the civil rights hero who stood in front of a bus – and changed Britain for ever 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z His mother's father was Herbert Morrison, home secretary in Churchill's wartime cabinet, and later deputy prime minister and foreign secretary in the post-war Labour government. The Third Man by Peter Mandelson 2010-07-17T23:05:00Z This is a problem with all the memoirs from actors of the New Labour years, those which have already been published, and those which have yet to come. The Alastair Campbell Diaries Volume One: Prelude to Power 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z There's a feeling that this New Labour quango consciously played up the business side while disparaging cultural aims as elitist. French films glow with confidence and culture. Ours should do the same 2010-08-07T23:05:00Z “With Mark’s return, you can expect to see someone standing up to Labour, a unionist who can think for himself,” says Matt Wrack, head of the Fire Brigades Union. Mark Serwotka: ‘I read on Twitter eight weeks ago that I was dead’ 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z When Ralph finally got reconciled to the Labour party, it was in the least useful period, namely in the Bennite period when it didn't really do much good. From Marx to the Milibands 2011-01-16T00:04:08Z Predictably, the head of Labour Students, the opposition Labour party's student body, takes a different view. Iron Lady or monster? Thatcher film stirs UK passions 2012-01-05T16:50:30Z This is Bragg's programme, invented with his producer after he was made a Labour peer in 1998. In praise of ? In Our Time 2011-03-11T00:55:09Z Brown phoned Douglas Alexander, Labour's election co-ordinator, to apologise on the night before polling day. Thirty new facts about Gordon Brown from Anthony Seldon's book 2010-12-23T12:38:02Z “Sensation” opened some five months after Tony Blair and the Labour party swept to power in Britain, ending 18 years of Conservative government. 25 Years After ‘Sensation,’ Has London’s Art Scene Kept Its Cool? 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z In Christina Anderson’s riff on “Love’s Labour’s Lost” set in the early 1980s, day laborers tired of surviving from moment to moment vow to devote their lives to building an economic empire. Shakespeare’s Deleted Scenes 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z Today's promise to support ownership of clubs by supporters will be welcomed by fans' groups but is short of the detail that Labour promised during the election campaign. Coalition agreement - the full deal at a glance 2010-05-20T14:13:00Z Much the same may be said of New Labour, as committed as ever to the private sector in general and the London financial markets in particular. Tony Judt: A manifesto for a new politics 2010-03-20T00:07:00Z As she herself says, the terrifying but necessary process of breaking free from her suffocating life with Albert and Mabel was always "mirrored and indeed intimately wrapped up with" her rejection of their Labour politics. Guardian Angel: My Story, My Britain by Melanie Phillips – review 2013-05-17T06:32:01Z Far better than the glossy film adaptation that followed it, Paul Abbott’s taut, twisty corruption drama felt like the perfect political thriller for the New Labour age. The 100 best TV shows of the 21st century 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z Overall, the Conservatives lost 13 seats and Labour gained 30. Labour's Corbyn puts politics center stage at Glastonbury Festival 2017-06-24T04:00:00Z But the best — for enterprise, relevance, and acting — was “Labour of Love.” Upon Further Review: Readers Tell Us What Deserved to Be Top 10 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z As I argue at Comment Is Free, London needs Oona King to make a strong and imaginative bid to become Labour's next mayoral candidate. Oona or Ken for London Mayor. Anyone else? 2010-05-24T12:54:00Z It was also about the time of this photograph that my grandmother became a peace protester, CND speaker and Labour activist who would subsequently spend much of her life campaigning for human rights. Family life 2011-08-19T23:05:40Z Lectures include “Quantum Whispers,” a talk with the physicist Lev Vaidman on the possibility of teleportation, and a lecture from the British Labour Party politician Chi Onwurah on “Democracy and Digitalization.” Major Lazer in Nuremberg, Germany, and Ai Weiwei in Athens: Global Arts Guide 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z The Labour Party’s policy on arts financing remains vague. Dance: Dance Encroaches on British Election 2010-05-02T21:40:00Z The worries one can understand: Labour was coming into office after an 18-year absence from power. The Alastair Campbell Diaries Volume One: Prelude to Power 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z And in Britain a website called LabourToo was launched, allowing victims to share such stories from within the Labour party anonymously and in confidence. How Harvey Weinstein’s accusers gave women worldwide a voice 2017-10-21T04:00:00Z Labour markets had never really recovered from a severe recession at the start of the 20s designed to stamp out a post-war inflationary boom. What the 21st century can learn from the 1929 crash | Larry Elliott 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z In 2009, under the Labour government, she took on a role as the country's digital champion, an appointment extended by the coalition administration. Martha Lane Fox: I intend to get the whole country online 2010-07-17T23:05:00Z But a few Labour historians are more hopeful. Why leftists and 'revolutionaries' are not the best feminists 2013-02-03T00:06:08Z The no campaign, which in contrast still refuses to list its donors, insists it is a genuine cross-party alliance and has the support of nearly half of Labour MPs. Cameron steps up AV attack while celebrities rally to the cause 2011-04-01T23:26:29Z The episode also dramatizes the Labour Party’s landslide election victory, and Tony Blair’s accession to prime minister. ‘The Crown’: The History Behind Season 5 on Netflix 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z He did that in response to the urgings of friends who believed that his capacity to inspire would pull a faction-riven Labour movement back into coherence. The Michael Foot I knew, by Neil Kinnock 2010-12-12T00:06:00Z He told The Telegraph: "I'm speaking off-message here; if this was New Labour I'd get fired - I think that might be for next Christmas. A Christmas special. That's what I understand." Sherlock: Fourth series confirmed 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z Many Labour candidates with links to Westminster have done jobs in the outside world as well. Half of Labour candidates in marginal seats are Westminster insiders 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z Unknown hands prised the artwork, entitled Slave Labour and showing a small barefooted boy making Union Jack bunting in a sewing machine, from the wall of a Poundland shop in Wood Green last week. Banksy mural mystery deepens as it heads for sale in Miami 2013-02-20T13:55:00Z But I voted New Labour, and then Green last time. Tom Stoppard: 'I'm the crank in the bus queue' 2010-04-14T20:30:00Z Assuming he was a Baywatch fan, though, things are looking much better for the Labour party’s leader. Bravery, courage, strength – why Pamela Anderson thinks that Julian Assange is sexy 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z The plant is part of the Birmingham Northfield constituency – safe Labour territory for the last few years. Election memories 2010-04-09T23:07:00Z Prime Minister David Cameron said he was "one of the greats of cinema", while Ed Miliband called it "a sad day" for film "and the Labour movement". Tributes paid to Lord Attenborough 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z It's clear under Labour, you pay more and get less. Councils in poorest areas suffering biggest budget cuts, Labour says 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z Of course, he couldn't have predicted that it would be Tony Blair who ended up taking Labour into a new cultural age. Eric Hobsbawm changed how we think about culture 2012-10-02T14:29:06Z The new series is set in 1924 and opens with the election of the first Labour government – news which divides the house and its inhabitants. Downton Abbey in hot water over bottle blooper 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z An alliance of Labour peers and crossbenchers was still battling over the bill introducing the referendum, with the government insisting it would overturn three amendments passed by peers. Colin Firth and Helena Bonham Carter back AV yes campaign 2011-02-15T00:01:02Z It was one of the most austere of years but the Labour government spent a fortune on buildings and cultural events to cheer up the battered nation. Skylon's the limit 2011-01-19T17:27:31Z Ponder too, arts shadow Johnson's positioning himself as resisting alleged Labour attacks on "anything old", as defending the traditional British cultural canon against barbarian leftie trendiness. Boris Johnson's cultural policies are nothing to be proud of 2010-06-24T16:30:00Z Weigel asked whether young people would ever flock to the Democratic Party the way they have to the Labour Party in Britain or if they were too cynical. ‘I don’t blame the scream speech’: Howard Dean on the first Internet campaign 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z Of course, given that Labour had moved to the right of Ted Heath's last government, being to the left of it didn't represent that Herculean an achievement, but still. What's the future of the Union? 2011-08-27T23:05:40Z When a 19-year-old trans woman was elected a Labour woman’s officer last year, a Labour councillor explained that “lived experience as a woman” was not a pre-requisite to be a woman’s officer. Don’t you just love it when a man explains to you what it means to be a woman? 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z The result was that, even with eight years of three-figure majorities, New Labour allowed Tory assumptions and arguments – taxes bad, markets good, public sector inefficient – to set the agenda and be treated as common sense. Philip Gould: An Unfinished Life, edited by Dennis Kavanagh - review 2012-09-26T07:30:04Z He refers to the learning curve of his constituency in Doncaster, and explores his central theme that Labour lost more working-class votes than middle-class votes in the last two elections. David and Ed Miliband on sibling rivalry 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z I applied for the role via a newspaper advertisement and the appointment was made by the Labour prime minister of the time, Gordon Brown. Hannah Rothschild Adds Novelist to Her Résumé 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z When Abramsky's book Karl Marx and the British Labour Party, which he co-authored with Henry Collins, was published in 1965, Berlin encouraged him to enter the academic world. Chimen Abramsky obituary 2010-03-18T18:38:00Z Love's Labour's Lost 10 Oct 2008: Casting around for a stance to adopt? Kathryn Hunter to play Cleopatra at RSC | Interview 2010-04-03T23:07:00Z Despite the demise of Labour's education initiatives and the complete absence of music from Michael Gove's proposed EBacc, singing is thriving as our second most popular pastime after sport. Choir of King's College; Exaudi; Tallis Scholars – review 2012-10-27T23:17:28Z To New Labour it is synonymous with elitism, anathema to arts apparatchiks. We all care about beauty ? why don't politicians? 2010-04-08T07:06:00Z Love's Labour's Lost, directed and adapted by Alex Timbers with songs by Michael Friedman, a founding associate artist of The Civilians. Jesse Tyler Ferguson to star onstage in NYC 2013-02-12T19:03:09Z This Labour council threatens to take all this away from them. Letters: Northern stars are right about one thing: it is all grim 2012-12-17T21:00:05Z Moving away from the Day-Glo Pop colors of New Labour that Darbyshire's earlier work made references to, the architecture here is pared down and Conservative, with references to British heritage. | Matthew Darbyshire's Urban Critique 2012-10-04T16:34:44Z Not only is Tesco reducing its number of products, but the new leader of the Labour party has just been elected on a political platform that, in part, challenges the rhetoric of choice. Why too much choice is stressing us out 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z The Labour party will tomorrow unveil the first official political poster created by a member of the public. David Cameron depicted as Gene Hunt in Labour poster 2010-04-02T20:16:00Z The Thick of It portrayed New Labour in decline, and a Conservative Party obsessed with rebranding itself as nice and cuddly. Out of The Thick of It: has the humour left British politics? 2011-02-18T17:08:42Z Gibbons agreed, saying that "a Labour council should not be acting as a conduit for the cuts made by a millionaire's cabinet". Newcastle library closure plans outrage writers 2012-11-21T12:48:44Z These uncompromisingly revisionist articles were collected under the general heading The Forward March of Labour Halted. Eric Hobsbawm obituary 2012-10-01T09:59:14Z But where is Labour while the government is doing violence to what's now called our welfare system? Letters: Politics and propaganda on the screen 2013-01-18T21:00:13Z This was brought about by the alienation of New Labour from its natural base of public support, and created a general sense of cynicism about British politics from which we are still suffering. Tony Benn: 'What is really significant about Tony Blair was that he set up a new political party, New Labour' 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z After years spent on the margins of political thought, the universal basic income has, over the past year, gained traction among mainstream thinktanks and some in the Labour party. Is Finland’s basic universal income a solution to automation, fewer jobs and lower wages? 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z Vote Labour because the other lot wanted you back where you came from. Looking back on New Labour: Peter Akinti 2010-04-03T23:07:00Z The Labour party’s “for the many, not the few” goes back to the last line of The Masque of Anarchy: “Ye are many – they are few.” 'Hope has started to grow': Maxine Peake on Corbyn, people power and Peterloo’s radical legacy 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z But it's odd, I say, that nobody in the Labour government, to this day, seems able publicly to connect policy to rhetoric. Hare v Kinnock 2010-04-12T19:00:00Z A staunch philanthropist, she contributed to the FAO's Freedom from Hunger campaign launched in 1963 and worked on projects with the International Labour Organization. The legendary story of Thangam Philip: food scientist, nutritionist, chef and mentor 2021-01-31T05:00:00Z The daughter of Labour Party activists, Ms. Whiteread came of age as Margaret Thatcher’s government was undertaking a wholesale transformation of British society — breaking down its welfare state and privatizing swathes of public housing. Ghosts of the Past, Embalmed in White Plaster 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z When Labour was in government David was appointed Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and in 1998 produced a white paper on Freedom of Information, which led to the Freedom of Information Act 2000. South Shields by-election: why the seat's tradition of public freedom is at stake 2013-05-02T15:00:02Z This all started in the heady days of 1997 and New Labour declaring that the class war was over, as we were all middle-class. The media class, not the middle class, are the BBC's problem 2011-01-26T12:39:16Z In either case, they might equally have cited their father's analysis of the corruptions of Labour values. David and Ed Miliband on sibling rivalry 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z Essential reading for anyone who wants to be the next leader of the Labour party, but probably best enjoyed travelling back from holiday to get you back into the work zone. Summer reading: 'coalition books' 2010-07-16T23:05:00Z His influence flowed from making himself very useful to whoever was the most important figure in the Labour party of the day. The Third Man by Peter Mandelson 2010-07-17T23:05:00Z David Miliband, to distance himself from politics and his brother's tenure as Labour leader, is apparently considering a move into TV. David Miliband's TV future: Strictly ? something 2011-01-09T21:00:01Z A Labour councillor called the move "a shameful and mean-minded action from the nasty party". Culture clash as threat of 100% cut in arts funding divides Newcastle 2013-01-29T20:02:40Z Abbott's words signal a move by Labour to capture the political battleground of the family from the Tories. British male identity crisis 'spurring machismo and heartlessness' 2013-05-14T17:39:29Z How does this relate to Labour's fall, you might ask. Tate Modern's birthday was a soulless celebration 2010-05-17T10:49:00Z And though the divided Britain of 2017 inspires lamentations about a party — and a nation — at war within itself, “Labour” dares to end on a note of guarded but cheering optimism. On London Stages, Britain Considers Its Divided Soul 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z Roberts's mother, a diehard Labour supporter from Cumbria married to a staunch home counties Tory, was outraged. Election artist focuses on bigger picture 2010-03-26T18:45:00Z So profoundly did New Labour internalise Gould's lesson that it must accept the principles of the Thatcher era that, even where it attempted modest redistribution from rich to poor, it kept quiet about it. Philip Gould: An Unfinished Life, edited by Dennis Kavanagh - review 2012-09-26T07:30:04Z She quit acting for politics, winning selection as the Labour Party’s candidate for the Parliament seat of Hampstead and Highgate, in North London. Glenda Jackson Hopes to Scale Mount Lear in Her Stage Return 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z The Pitiless Storm shows a middle-aged Labour politician coming to support the notion of Scottish independence. Scottish theatres lukewarm over referendum 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z The weekend after the Labour Day holiday is traditionally the slowest of the year. US box office suffers 10-year low 2012-09-10T14:11:20Z He then leaves his political home, the Liberal Party, moving into the orbit of the ascendant Labour. New & Noteworthy, From Slave Traders to the Savoy Hotel 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z "We saw him in The Sun newspaper last week saying he backs Mr Cameron," noted Lord Sugar, who is the Labour Government's enterprise tsar. Sugar 'frustrated' at Webber show 2010-05-11T09:28:00Z In his speech to the Labour conference in Manchester, Miliband said that housing was one of his six national goals. David Cameron offers 20% discount on new homes 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z The paper’s columnists also accused Labour of using immigrants to increase its powerbase, figuring its left-wing agenda would appeal to low-income minorities — even though Labour’s 2010 general election defeat somewhat undermines that argument. British xenophobia on the rise 2013-01-03T21:17:00Z MPs whose details will remain secret are known to include several who are renting properties from one another and a Labour shadow minister who rents a London home from an offshore trust. Grayling's rehabilitation speech and Clegg taking DPMQs: Politics live blog 2012-11-20T16:11:00Z "Without Labour roots, the saplings of the third way didn't stand a chance." Philip Gould: An Unfinished Life, edited by Dennis Kavanagh - review 2012-09-26T07:30:04Z Labour leader Neil Kinnock arrives two minutes in The balance had switched: it was now the pop star who conferred respectability on the politician rather than vice versa. Elvis and Nixon, Reagan and Jacko, Jagger and Blair … when pop stars and politicians collide 2016-06-19T04:00:00Z The Daily Politics tested Labour MP Jim Murphy and Liberal Democrat MP Steve Webb on the cost of cinema snacks after they watched a Daily Politics 'trailer' on the issue. VIDEO: Cinema popcorn has '1,000% mark-up' 2012-10-17T12:59:21Z One of the Labour whips has a taste for Wagner. This House recalls the years when Britain really was a nation in crisis 2012-10-13T23:06:33Z But Blair's motivation – put simply, why he was in the Labour party, or for that matter politics, at all – remains elusive. Peter Wilby: 'Anybody who studies Blair is forced to the conclusion that what is really at the core of him is Christianity' 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z Is there anything else you want to tell us about “Our Labour?” A DNA Test Led Yashua Klos to New Connections and New Art 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z And what have we left to celebrate in the years of Labour rule? Franz Kafka's election guide 2010-04-08T09:15:00Z For the macho New Labour government, newly in office and all football and testosterone, criticism of this cherished project was tantamount to sedition. Jonathan Glancey's passport to the planet 2012-02-12T21:31:00Z Another Conservative proposal, councils paying people to recycle, could prove popular compared to Labour's contrasting "pay-as-you-throw" idea. Coalition agreement - the full deal at a glance 2010-05-20T14:13:00Z Labour's Dennis Skinner asks for an assurance that the government will stop "bleating" about the turnout in union strike votes in the light of the turnout in the police commissioner elections. Grayling's rehabilitation speech and Clegg taking DPMQs: Politics live blog 2012-11-20T16:11:00Z By this time the Lib Dem is a carnivore and the Labour man is on the culture, media and sport select committee. If Only – review 2013-06-29T23:06:22Z Union leaders criticised the Labour party for not backing the strike. Biggest strike in three years sparks furore over Tory plan for ballot law 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z Let's take three issues that illustrate the problem and that have concerned Labour governments as much as they have concerned Conservatives. We love the NHS too much to make it better 2013-03-09T06:31:01Z Slave Labour appears among the images of artwork on his website but inquiries to Pest Control, his official "handling service", were not returned. Banksy mural mystery deepens as it heads for sale in Miami 2013-02-20T13:55:00Z Not really, in a current landscape where a former Conservative party chairman and former No 10 Labour adviser bestride the two great bodies of broadcasting regulation. Memoirs by William Rees-Mogg - review 2011-07-13T15:00:02Z There, teenagers were attending a summer camp organised by the Norwegian Labour party. From The Hunger Games to Utøya and The Hate U Give: how cinema declared war on the young 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z Tristram Hunt, a fellow of the RHS, presenter of TV history programmes and a Labour MP, added that it was "an attack on the quality and integrity of academic research". Historians warn minister: hands off our academic freedoms 2013-01-26T13:57:54Z He had finally achieved the pomp and status he craved, but too late: twilight was falling on New Labour. The Third Man by Peter Mandelson 2010-07-17T23:05:00Z Labour politician Chris Bryant, who accepted damages from Murdoch's British newspaper group after the News of the World admitted hacking his phone, told Reuters the media mogul had dominated the political landscape for decades. Murdoch 'never asked a UK prime minister for anything' 2012-04-25T12:48:00Z Her victories were aided by the politically corrupt leaders of the Labour Party and of many Trades Unions. Meryl Streep praises Margaret Thatcher as 'figure of awe' 2013-04-09T09:19:56Z “Just heard about the death of David Bowie,” Chuka Umunna, 37, a politician from the opposition Labour Party, wrote on Twitter. Tributes Abound for David Bowie, London Hero and ‘Master of Reinvention’ 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z Most Scots are used to nepotism and skulduggery among entrenched – often Labour – officials. What's the future of the Union? 2011-08-27T23:05:40Z When he labelled a Labour MP with a pronounced stoop as "bent", the row reverberated for weeks. Andrew Roth obituary 2010-08-12T17:25:00Z Karin Coonrod, currently directing “Love’s Labour’s Lost” at the Public, will direct a new Romanian drama, “I Killed My Mother,” in February. Mia Yoo Steps Into Ellen Stewart?s Shoes at La MaMa 2011-10-15T22:30:24Z At one point, Blair, who is sixty-four and tanned, described the harsh choice facing British voters at next month’s election: between the risky Brexit agenda of the Conservatives and the left-wing irrelevance of Corbyn’s Labour. The Return of Tony Blair 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z His boss, Jane Thomas, worked on the failed campaign for a Yorkshire regional assembly, and last year lost a Labour seat in the general election. Will anyone vote for AV in the electoral reform referendum? 2011-04-08T23:09:12Z And then, the thing that so-called New Labour did to try and unravel the social safety net in Britain. Michael Moore: ‘Trump inspires his side. It’s like Munich in 1932’ 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z Away from the limelight, he was a passionate supporter of Tottenham Hotspur and of the Labour Party. Obituary: Roger Lloyd-Pack 2014-01-16T12:27:05Z New Labour is dead, but how long before its Conservative/Liberal replacement goes the same way? Artist Stuart Brisely: shutting up shop on the old politics 2010-05-21T12:10:00Z Speaking directly to the Guardian, meanwhile, the Labour MP Jon Cruddas avoided the question of leadership bids, talking instead about the Labour party's new role as a force of social and economic resistance. Hay festival 2010: yesterday at Hay 2010-05-31T09:43:00Z Lewis believes that the creative industries provide an arena where Labour can draw up imaginative policies that illustrate what he calls a compelling vision for the future. Labour must win 'mainstream majority' by promoting social mobility 2011-04-06T08:00:03Z And at Labour and Wait, a vintage housewares store on Redchurch Street, the featured product was a 60-year-old aluminum measuring cup called the Tala Cook’s Measure, which is still made by hand in Liverpool. The Details: In Praise of British Design 2012-09-26T22:11:26Z Tony Blair once said he was not born into the Labour party; he chose it. The Third Man by Peter Mandelson 2010-07-17T23:05:00Z Sorry, I meant very important cabinet minister in the Labour government. Digested read: Outside In by Peter Hain 2012-02-12T22:38:00Z In the New Labour era, public arts ventures helped to spread the assets of Britain throughout our regions. The Tate of the nation 2011-07-14T12:09:53Z Labour is divided equally on set, with each brother taking the reins on alternate camera setups. Paolo and Vittorio Taviani: 'For us it was cinema or death' 2013-03-01T08:00:05Z For Adonis, it is this change in stance that was the real reason the Lib Dem leadership had little real interest in the Labour talks succeeding. 5 Days in May by David Adonis – review 2013-06-14T08:01:00Z Labour boasts of all it did with free museums and galleries and tripling arts funding. We know spending on the arts makes big money for Britain. So why cut it? 2013-05-02T19:30:01Z Yet elsewhere he does find a few buildings for which to be grateful to New Labour. A New Kind of Bleak by Owen Hatherley – review 2012-07-06T07:00:01Z So Labour MP Frank Field describes one of his regular tete-a-tete's with Margaret Thatcher at the apogee of her pomp and prime. The Real Iron Lady: Working with Margaret Thatcher – review 2013-03-15T19:40:01Z "And I joined the Labour party on 2 June," she said, to loud cheering. Labour watches the Eddie and Ed show 2010-09-29T18:17:00Z New Labour did not want to control the market. Ralph Miliband and sons 2010-09-06T07:00:00Z Most councils desperately hoped they would be saved by Labour winning the 1987 election. High stakes 2013-02-12T07:00:01Z Labour's objection seems to be because the Tories thought of it first. Glossop battles over fate of town's historic gothic hall and new library 2013-03-21T18:25:45Z I'd be happy if the Labour party moved back to the left. 'I felt I didn't deserve success' 2011-01-30T00:05:33Z While admitting he has not yet seen the programme, Tristram Hunt, the historian and Labour MP, expressed concerns in December about Horrible Histories being adapted for primetime BBC1, describing it as "cartoon content for adults". How Horrible Histories became a huge hit 2011-03-17T20:00:01Z They gathered gold discs but were complicit in an attempt to write a song by committee for the Labour party. Bedsit Disco Queen by Tracey Thorn – review 2013-02-10T08:00:01Z But a "new history of the Labour party" needs to be far more than a catalogue of names and events. Speak for Britain!: A New History of the Labour Party by Martin Pugh | Book review 2010-03-21T00:08:00Z I'm more socialist certainly than New Labour – I'm very old Labour really. Alan Bennett: 'I've often wanted to be bolder' 2010-11-23T08:00:00Z Ms Harman was speaking on Monday at the launch of a Labour consultation document on young people and the arts. Harman: Arts need to be 'less elite' 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z Breivik killed eight people with a car bomb in Oslo on July 22 and then killed 69, mostly teenagers, at a Labour Party summer youth camp on Utoeya island, in a gun massacre. Norwegian killer used computer wargames to plan attack 2012-04-19T12:09:00Z Child labour is also widespread: the US Department of Labor and the International Labour Organization estimate that about 85,000 children work in Madagascar’s mines. Dark crystals: the brutal reality behind a booming wellness craze 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z “If these rent levels are as claimed, they will not be in any way affordable,” the Labour councillor said. Boris Johnson to approve ‘affordable’ London flats for rent at up to £2,800 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z The story of Buxton’s Underground Railroad freedom seekers is remembered every year at “Homecoming” on Labour Day weekend in September. At Ontario Underground Railroad Sites, Farming and Liberty 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z Labour has called for safe searches to be made the default, instead of expecting people to download the filters themselves. Maria Miller demands talks with big internet firms on web pornography 2013-06-05T22:32:48Z There were times during the Labour leadership contest when some fans of New Labour asked whether Miliband was concerned that he was alienating Murdoch. Why Ed Miliband is experiencing his West Wing moment 2011-07-12T22:38:00Z He turned against Whitlam and Carter, and Labour and the unions in Britain. Murdoch's Politics: How One Man's Thirst for Wealth and Power Shapes Our World by David McKnight – review 2013-02-20T07:01:01Z The New Labour cabinet that took us into Iraq. Q&A: Ken Loach 2012-06-01T21:09:01Z Anyway, she's probably too busy being acting leader of the Labour Party. Oona or Ken for London Mayor. Anyone else? 2010-05-24T12:54:00Z A Labour party that had lost four elections in a row was on its way to the first of three victories. The Alastair Campbell Diaries Volume One: Prelude to Power 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z Located in a historic 1910 Finnish Labour Temple in Thunder Bay, this restaurant is known for its pancakes. Driving along the Trans-Canada Highway isn’t a road trip. It’s a family culinary tour. 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z I only became political in 2007 when Labour was cutting science funding. Brian Cox: Physics is better than rock'n'roll 2011-03-24T08:01:00Z As in all elections Labour won thanks to a confusing coalition of contrasting views. Ken Loach's Spirit of '45 is a fantasy 2013-03-08T07:00:32Z Clegg says police commissioners don't write parliamentary questions for Labour MPs. Grayling's rehabilitation speech and Clegg taking DPMQs: Politics live blog 2012-11-20T16:11:00Z Alongside myself, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown helped turn New Labour from a modernising party into a totally unelectable rabble within 15 years. The Third Man by Peter Mandelson: digested read 2010-07-19T23:05:00Z Some would be left- or rightwing – in terms of Labour or Conservative, rather than Militant or fascist – and the bands were much the same. This Is England redux 2010-09-03T23:03:00Z However, the Labour party expressed concerns about the government's decision. BSkyB takeover gets green light 2011-03-03T14:03:40Z Or a victory, like the Labour candidate Tony Blair’s election to prime minister in 1997. Harry Evans, Potentate of Print, Was Also a Social Butterfly 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z The whole book is written as though he, single-handedly, made Labour electable and was personally responsible for all good things that were achieved. Clare Short: 'I was surprised by how messianic and hubristic it is right from the start. Early on, Blair was not like this' 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z Murdoch's testimony was among the most heavily anticipated - not least because of his close links to generations of British politicians, both from Cameron's Conservatives and the opposition Labour Party. At inquiry, Rupert Murdoch defends 50 year record 2012-04-25T13:22:06Z Labour and the Liberal Democrats complain that they have never had a fair crack of the whip in the written press. The Leveson debate is now about politics, not the press 2013-03-18T07:00:23Z The story begins in April 2010, the day after the first prime ministerial debate, when a Conservative Party candidate, Labour adviser and Liberal Democrat employee find themselves stranded together at Malaga airport. Play puts coalition drama on stage 2013-05-10T16:42:40Z On Monday a Welsh-language Labour election broadcast will be transmitted, as will a different version of Izzard's Brilliant Britain for Scotland. Eddie Izzard fronts Labour election broadcast 2010-04-15T15:45:00Z So, for instance, he recalls his reaction to euphoria of Labour supporters on election night. The war and the cliches: the sofa syntax of people-friendly Tony 2010-09-01T18:29:00Z From Shakespeare expect “Measure for Measure,” “Henry IV, Part 2,” “Love’s Labour’s Lost” and “Julius Caesar,” that last one with a female Caesar in a production directed by Amanda Dehnert. Summer Stages 2011-05-06T22:09:27Z And Nick Clegg said the Liberal Democrats offered a real alternative to Labour and the Tories. Guardian Daily podcast: Parties begin hard-fought campaign, and Obama unveils nuclear strategy 2010-04-06T23:01:00Z Labour called the first referendum in 1975 and later campaigned to leave; now the Conservatives, egged on by the rise of the UK Independence Party, are the hostile ones. In or out? 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z Yes, Labour policies, strategies, economics and even iconography are discussed at length. On London Stages, Britain Considers Its Divided Soul 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z As a young Labour backbencher throughout the four years of his prime ministership, I viewed him with a kind of baffled admiration. Edward Heath: The Edward Heath: The Authorised Biography by Philip Ziegler 2010-06-18T23:15:00Z The Catastrophe star and Twitter aficionado Rob Delaney is definitely an honorary Brit, and he's 'voting' for the Labour Party. How Your Favorite British Celebs are Voting in the U.K.'s General Election 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z Caroline Lucas: 'I have been more true to what people think Labour stood for than Labour themselves.' Caroline Lucas: 'Politics is about everything we do' 2013-07-27T23:05:02Z A couple of years after Weinstein had made his offer he was playing Iago in the West End and Berowne in the National Theatre’s Love’s Labour’s Lost. Joseph Fiennes: the sequel 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z The defining difference in their campaigns, beyond the niceties of policy, is the particular strands of Labour tradition that they have sought to invigorate. David and Ed Miliband on sibling rivalry 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z They'd both always voted Labour until the last election, when for the first time Ant voted Conservative. Ant and Dec: just the two of us 2013-02-23T09:00:00Z Did you see “Love’s Labour’s Lost” in Central Park this summer? Too Much Shakespeare? Be Not Cowed 2013-09-12T18:18:17Z Ralph regarded both the Labour party and the Communist party as radically flawed vehicles for the socialist transformation whose eventual arrival he seems never to have doubted. Ed: The Milibands and the Making of a Labour Leader by Mehdi Hasan and James Macintyre - review 2011-07-15T21:55:11Z I particularly enjoyed the complex, rather chivalrous relationship between Walter Harrison, the Labour deputy chief whip played by Philip Glenister, and his Tory opposite number, Jack Weatherill played by Charles Edwards. This House recalls the years when Britain really was a nation in crisis 2012-10-13T23:06:33Z Comparisons between the Labour leader and the High Sparrow sprang up online when both rose to power in 2015. 'It was madness': Game of Thrones stars on how it changed their lives 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z For starters, its leading characters are the whips of the Conservative and Labour Parties — that is, vote wranglers who try to herd their members into the semblance of a united front. Critic’s Notebook: ‘This House,’ by James Graham, to Be Broadcast in Theaters 2013-05-14T21:49:41Z Charles Leadbeater, a former policy adviser to the Labour government, recently advocated a prize in the classicist's name to recognise those who tackled such online misogyny. Mary Beard reveals she befriended Twitter trolls following online abuse 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z She died in the year that tuition fees were introduced by the Labour government. Letter: Pete Postlethwaite ? a man of true beauty 2011-01-08T00:06:49Z Labour insiders are concerned that the behind-the-scenes exercise will hand the £100,000-a-year job to the former Tory party chairman Lord Patten of Barnes. Tory 'contempt' for BBC means MPs should select chair, Hunt told 2010-12-30T11:53:51Z Straw went on to be a Labour frontbencher – in either the cabinet or shadow cabinet – for 23 consecutive years. Last Man Standing by Jack Straw - review 2012-10-02T11:29:00Z There is no authoritative way to assess a government's record and, I guess, more time needs to pass for me fully to digest the history of the Labour years. Looking back on New Labour: Peter Akinti 2010-04-03T23:07:00Z The post of head of communications across government was created in the wake of the Iraqi invasion, the "sexed-up" dossier and the row over Labour's reliance on spin. Public sector cuts: where they will hit 2011-03-25T08:30:00Z Coogan, a Labour supporter, also criticised comedians who are unwilling to express their personal beliefs or voice potential controversial opinions. Steve Coogan: celebrities who apologise over tabloid exposés are pitiful 2013-07-29T23:05:00Z Last week, Corbyn, who is running for reëlection as Labour Party leader, unveiled “Working with Women,” a manifesto vowing to combat sexism. Are After-Work Drinks a Conspiracy Against Women? 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z I wrote to Tony asking him to make sure my campaigns to limit Murdoch's media empire and expose the Masons in public office will be a priority for a new Labour government. Digested read: A Walk-On Part by Chris Mullin 2011-08-22T20:00:08Z He would clearly like his diary to be treated as the definitive source on New Labour. The Alastair Campbell Diaries Volume One: Prelude to Power 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z Photograph: Martin Argles for the Guardian On Saturday 25 September the Guardian was full of speculation about who the next leader of the Labour party might be. The Guardian made music: 'found' sounds and food, chiffchaffs and Labour contenders 2010-10-08T14:38:00Z The actor and Labour activist said it was "just another example of slagging off teachers," adding: "I don't think that's professional or appropriate." Blackadder star and Gove in WW1 row 2014-01-05T18:44:17Z Alastair Campbell, for better and, many would say, for worse, was part of the soul of the Labour government. Alastair Campbell's diaries: What the spin doctor saw 2010-05-28T23:07:00Z But my real goal was a small display of goods just beyond the bakery’s counter, the first American location of the British retail brand Labour and Wait. The Robust Preciousness of Labour and Wait 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z There were no women in the Tory whips office and only one – the first ever – on the Labour team. This House recalls the years when Britain really was a nation in crisis 2012-10-13T23:06:33Z As a result, he was a semi-exiled figure for long stretches of New Labour's period in power. The Third Man by Peter Mandelson 2010-07-17T23:05:00Z The World Economic Forum surveyed data on 142 participating countries using information gathered by groups including the Central Intelligence Agency, the International Labour Organisation, UNESCO, and the World Health Organization. U.S. Is Slowly Closing Gender Gap, But Still Lags Behind Europe 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z The abiding principle of Straw's life is that Labour should be in power. Last Man Standing by Jack Straw - review 2012-10-02T11:29:00Z New Labour was a tremendously successful political project for a long time. Out of The Thick of It: has the humour left British politics? 2011-02-18T17:08:42Z But I tell you what, for the most part my Labour colleagues are a very diverse set. Ilhan Omar meets Tan Dhesi: ‘We helped to break a glass ceiling' 2019-12-21T05:00:00Z I find it perverse that Labour is shying away from its own legacy. General election 2010: the art of the political poster 2010-04-27T07:00:00Z Just like Crosland, though without his Keynesian grasp of the dangers of recurring boom and bust, New Labour believed capitalism had been tamed. Ralph Miliband and sons 2010-09-06T07:00:00Z No one expected the Liberal party to be all but effaced in the 20th century by the rise of the Labour movement. Cameron and Clegg: the improbable coalition 2010-05-12T15:22:00Z A call for a round of strike action sparked on your part what sounded like an irrational fear of trade unions and "old" Labour. Letters: How to fight back against austerity cuts 2010-12-21T00:05:02Z Then, he was consigliere to Tony Blair, whom he assisted with the creation of New Labour. The Third Man by Peter Mandelson 2010-07-17T23:05:00Z Labour will be given a stark warning by a member of the shadow cabinet that it will only return to government if it wins back Britain's "mainstream majority" by promoting ambition and social mobility. Labour must win 'mainstream majority' by promoting social mobility 2011-04-06T08:00:03Z But for decades, The Sun was ruthless in defending the images, as former Labour minister Clare Short found when she spoke out against them in 2003. UK's Sun drops topless 'Page Three girls' after campaign 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z The figures highlighting the disparities are set out in a freedom of information request released by the CPS to the Labour MP Ann Coffey. Revealed: less than a third of young men prosecuted for rape are convicted 2018-09-23T04:00:00Z He remained politically active throughout his life: he was born, he said, “a card-carrying member of the Labour party”, and was highly involved with charities including Saving Faces and the International Performers’ Aid Trust. 'We are all so devastated': tributes pour in to Alan Rickman from acting world 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z "I think it would be quite appropriate to recall the positive experience of past decades when the so-called GTO, Ready for Labour and Defence, was in use in our country," he said. Vladimir Putin teams up with Steven Seagal to promote healthy lifestyle 2013-03-13T16:52:41Z While performing a 350-pound partner dead lift with a teammate from 12 Labours CrossFit in Columbia, Md., Luz pulled a ligament in her lower back, which left her in excruciating pain. This physical therapist pulls, slaps and prods to relieve patients’ chronic pain 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, Labour MP Barry Sheerman called for Lord Patten to resign, telling the Commons he was shocked to hear the BBC Trust chairman describe the PAC report as "unfair and shabby". off was cavalier - MPs 2012-12-20T14:45:03Z He was not only born into the tribe, his veins ran with the blood of Labour royalty. The Third Man by Peter Mandelson 2010-07-17T23:05:00Z The author correctly identifies the willingness on the part of the last Labour government to implicitly play the race card, as a major factor in the rise of the BNP. Will Self walks through Britain's flag-waving heartlands 2013-03-07T11:31:01Z Former Labour Home Secretary David Blunkett MP said in August: 'The way TV executives worship the cult of youth seems to be an unstoppable fetish.' McCririck loses discrimination case 2013-11-13T17:20:30Z Ed Miliband would hike up taxes on people's homes, and in Wales, the Labour government are now actively supporting monthly bin collections. Councils in poorest areas suffering biggest budget cuts, Labour says 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z And in this version “Love’s Labour’s Lost” brings to mind the fast-paced escapist fare of Depression- and wartime-era Hollywood, especially as directed by Howard Hawks, with its briskly scrapping leading lovers. Theater Review: ‘Love’s Labour’s Lost,’ at Hudson Valley Shakespeare Fest 2012-07-31T22:20:55Z My guess would be that Liberals and Labour will be at one in recognising the absolute stupidity of cuts that damage this part of our economy. Letters: Coalition could split over arts spending 2010-10-05T23:05:00Z The conventional wisdom about the five days is that Cameron and Clegg played their hands better than Labour. 5 Days in May by David Adonis – review 2013-06-14T08:01:00Z The future Labour leader said he didn't care and would speak his mind. Why Ed Miliband is experiencing his West Wing moment 2011-07-12T22:38:00Z Liam Gillick As with all my art, I went back to the source: in this case, the Labour party's own website. General election 2010: the art of the political poster 2010-04-27T07:00:00Z And I doubt whether we shall ever see another Labour leader win three general elections. Michael Howard: 'Tony Blair was a brilliant politician. But, ultimately, he was a failed prime minister' 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z But this year's Labour manifesto is made to appear significantly stranger by its cover. General election 2010: Labour's strange field trip 2010-04-12T16:50:00Z They held “a simple remit: to oust Margaret Thatcher from office, and by default return the Labour Party to power.” Almost anarchy: The Style Council and the smooth sounds of sophisti-pop 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z He failed to become a Labour MP after running for the Cities of London and Westminster seat in the May general election. Wyclef Jean changes his tune over run for Haiti's toughest job 2010-07-27T19:23:00Z In Britain, the book's most analyzed sections concern Blair's relationship with Gordon Brown, who was his partner in the Labour Party's 1990s modernization, served as Treasury chief and then succeeded Blair as prime minister. Tony Blair: 'I cried for Iraq war victims' 2010-09-01T18:06:00Z Even the bare facts of its history confirm that Labour is at its strongest when it is visibly a party of strong belief. Speak for Britain!: A New History of the Labour Party by Martin Pugh | Book review 2010-03-21T00:08:00Z Labour brought a golden era to the arts after two decades of drought. A great act of vandalism that will impoverish us all 2011-03-28T19:30:01Z Well, then he is hoping that Len McCluskey and Unite might just force Labour to get more radical, or even formally divorce from it. Mark Serwotka: ‘I read on Twitter eight weeks ago that I was dead’ 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z Labour released figures showing what it called an arts funding crisis in the regions. Tories hit back at Labour over arts funding 2013-07-03T16:01:45Z At its party conference, Labour promised at its conference to invest in 8,000 more GPs. Tory health minister Earl Howe tells GPs: stop moaning 2014-10-04T04:00:00Z Mr Clive Soley, the Labour home affairs spokesman, said that he was appalled at the latest moves being taken against them. From the archive, 22 June 1985: Policemen turn hippy camp into no-go area 2013-06-21T23:05:03Z This fact was picked upon last week by the committee chair, Labour MP Margaret Hodge, who suggested it was not appropriate for a publicly funded organisation like the BBC to use such mechanisms. Tax reports 'misleading' says BBC 2012-07-24T12:43:17Z It provided a refreshing contrast to the self-obsessed offerings put out by key members of the New Labour project in 2010. Readers recommend their favourite books of 2010 2011-01-01T00:05:32Z She held meetings for the Labour party and leftwing campaigning group Justice and Peace in her front room for 25 years, despite my grandad being a staunch Tory. Family life 2011-08-19T23:05:40Z The behaviour of Liberals in power shows that the only vehicle for progressive politics is the Labour party. 5 Days in May: The Coalition and Beyond by Andrew Adonis – review 2013-05-13T07:00:03Z In the mid to late 60s, the then Labour prime minister, Harold Wilson, resisted attempts by the US president, Lyndon Johnson, to involve Britain in the Vietnam war. Jon Savage on song: The Zombies ? Butcher's Tale (Western Front 1914) 2011-03-17T09:32:54Z With Labour retooling itself as a party of power, the action and excitement were in politics. Ed: The Milibands and the Making of a Labour Leader by Mehdi Hasan and James Macintyre - review 2011-07-15T21:55:11Z On top of the Thatcherite model for the arts, which Labour kept in place and expanded, the last government added an extra cost burden to the arts. Let's cut the arts budget 2010-07-25T18:00:00Z Political drama This House, set at the end of James Callaghan's Labour government, had an acclaimed run at the National Theatre in two years ago. Trunchbull star to play Nick Clegg 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z Labour is right to attack them on this. George Osborne: paying the price of failure 2013-04-02T20:46:29Z However, they reached newspaper front pages a couple of weeks ago when Labour MP Tom Watson resigned from the shadow cabinet. Drenge on boredom, teenage rage and being Tom Watson MP's favourite band 2013-07-25T15:56:00Z If New Labour is obsolete it is not because of the personal defects of Gordon Brown, Blair's delusional moral certainty and incessant war-mongering or even the dysfunctional relationship between the two leaders. Ralph Miliband and sons 2010-09-06T07:00:00Z His opening line is a sort of boast that he "once embodied New Labour's reputation for spin and control freakery". The Third Man by Peter Mandelson 2010-07-17T23:05:00Z It's what that invasion revealed about the Labour party. Hare v Kinnock 2010-04-12T19:00:00Z So I stuck with the Labour party all these years. The Spirit of '45: 'The poverty was dreadful' 2013-03-02T21:17:20Z Labour, for me, is the party of working class people who sought to educate themselves and their communities, not to glorify vacuous street art. Labour championing Banksy? It's a betrayal of party values 2013-02-27T15:26:06Z Veteran Labour dissenter Marshall-Andrews visited Palestine, too – Gaza, in his case – on a recent parliamentary delegation. Ivor Dembina gives parliament its first standup gig 2010-03-16T21:30:00Z But many of the companies that flourished under Labour will die or be much reduced. Portrait of the artist: Simon Callow, actor 2010-08-09T21:45:00Z Lugubriously, he proffers the opinion that the Labour party may never get back into power again. Cheers for Frears 2010-08-14T23:05:00Z This evidence shows that more British people wanted a coalition of the main parties – in March 1945 43% – than sought a Labour government. Ken Loach's Spirit of '45 is a fantasy 2013-03-08T07:00:32Z Most were teenage members of the governing Labour Party, and they were among Norway’s brightest and most promising young people. Review: ‘One of Us,’ by Asne Seierstad, on Anders Breivik’s Rampage in Norway 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z It might even help Labour win the next election. The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt – review 2013-05-07T11:32:26Z With the Labour Party consistently ahead in the polls, there is every chance that voters in 2015 will reject David Cameron and George Osborne’s plans for austerity. Grayling's rehabilitation speech and Clegg taking DPMQs: Politics live blog 2012-11-20T16:11:00Z So, your show at the Wellin Museum is titled “Our Labour.” A DNA Test Led Yashua Klos to New Connections and New Art 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z The last intervention made was in the Wirral, where a council decision to close 11 libraries was eventually revoked in 2009 after an inquiry ordered by Labour culture secretary Andy Burnham. Library campaigners mount legal challenges to closures 2011-03-01T17:01:21Z How I rejoiced at the magic words "Labour hold" and "Labour gain". Election memories 2010-04-09T23:07:00Z Politically, Red Wedge knew what they wanted – a Labour victory in 1987. At least youth protest culture is not stuck in the 80s, like its critics 2013-07-23T14:32:20Z Labour accused the government of adopting a "chaotic" approach to diplomacy when Fox announced that he would instead make an official visit to the country in the new year. Liam Fox cancels Sri Lanka trip amid claim in cables of Colombo's war crimes complicity 2010-12-16T21:30:42Z Conservative and Labour politicians have criticised the show, calling its actions "irresponsible and amateurish". PM criticises Schofield over list 2012-11-09T17:35:02Z Controversially scrapped by the government last July, the UKFC, set up by Labour in 2000, limps on until 1 April, after which its disbursement powers of lottery cash devolve to the British Film Institute. How The King's Speech has revived the British film industry 2011-02-11T19:32:41Z Does he think Labour will win the election? Hare v Kinnock 2010-04-12T19:00:00Z Neither has acknowledged, or perhaps fully understood, the implications of the financial crisis for a future Labour government. Ralph Miliband and sons 2010-09-06T07:00:00Z He is a Labour party supporter, did the voiceover for an election broadcast last year and has never had time for the Scottish Nationalists. David Tennant: 'My bedpost really has very few notches' ? interview 2011-08-19T21:58:02Z It looks like the Labour party is going to remain in the grip of the rightwing and that's the worst news of all. Ken Loach returns with an angry look at Iraq 2010-05-19T21:25:00Z Capitalism had changed fundamentally, and rather than opposing it Labour should use the market to advance socialist values. Ralph Miliband and sons 2010-09-06T07:00:00Z In Bangkok, we visited the offices of Ecpat International and the International Labour Organization. A Vacation With a Purpose: Fighting Trafficking in Thailand 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z Or should Labour accept that it is capitalism itself that must be changed? Ralph Miliband and sons 2010-09-06T07:00:00Z When Labour adopted the slogan "Labour Means Business" it was not immediately apparent that they meant it literally. Ken Loach: We need a new movement to defend the NHS 2013-06-27T10:22:50Z The broadcast will attempt to shift the focus towards policy and away from personality, in line with Labour's attempt to refocus election coverage away from the televised debates. Get me Jack Bauer - Labour calls in 24 director to revive election campaign 2010-04-26T23:05:00Z Labour, which flirted with ideas of "community empowerment" in recent years, always feared that localism would undermine the universality of the welfare state and services. Coalition agreement - the full deal at a glance 2010-05-20T14:13:00Z For Labour, Hopkins will be taking a somewhat different tack. Get me Jack Bauer - Labour calls in 24 director to revive election campaign 2010-04-26T23:05:00Z New Labour too treated culture as a commodity – these buildings were to earn their keep via tourism, "creative industry" exports or, more often, as the fulcrum for property development. When culture is treated as commodity, no wonder its temples are sold off 2013-05-22T13:18:35Z Yet he held a distinctly pessimistic view of what was possible for Labour. Philip Gould: An Unfinished Life, edited by Dennis Kavanagh - review 2012-09-26T07:30:04Z "One chapter deals with the trajectory of his political shift, from the time he was a young socialist who joined Labour," said Seymour. Christopher Hitchens faces posthumous 'prosecution' in new book 2013-01-16T11:43:48Z We know how the Liverpool story played out; Hatton has disappeared into obscurity, Militant tendency lives on only in its own fantasies and the mainstream Labour party has moved steadily to the right. TV Club: GBH 2010-03-17T11:52:00Z This is why every Labour culture secretary since 1997 argued for and won better than average settlements for the arts. Letters: Co-ops, cuts and the coalition 2010-10-03T23:04:00Z You ascended a real, ancient staircase into a recreation of Labour's Victorian gloom-tank on Victoria Embankment. The Thick of It: the agony of tight spaces 2012-08-26T19:00:00Z His main goal, he said, would be to challenge the Labour government's "horrible utilitarianism, which hates everything old and everything that doesn't contribute to the nation's GDP". Boris Johnson's cultural policies are nothing to be proud of 2010-06-24T16:30:00Z Tristram Hunt, the historian, broadcaster and Labour MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central, took Pickles to task over putting emptying bins over culture. Library protests are the domain of 'luvvies', Eric Pickles tells MPs 2012-12-18T13:05:39Z Sally was an experienced, modernising, Labour party official who helped keep Tony's compass pointing in the right direction inside the party. 'Tony Blair called back to see if I had blown myself up' 2010-10-09T23:06:00Z Certainly, elements of the Labour and Wait ethos have long since passed into cliché, and a German-made horsehair bottle brush doesn’t, perhaps, quicken the pulse as once it might have. The Robust Preciousness of Labour and Wait 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z The Labour election of 1945 was a tremendous victory for democratic ownership of the economy. The Spirit of '45: where did it go? 2013-03-02T16:00:02Z That same year, he resigned from Labour, claiming that its leaders espoused a philosophy of “corporatism” and “authoritarianism” similar to Mussolini’s Italy. Paul Johnson, Prolific Historian Prized by Conservatives, Dies at 94 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z Lippestad said his client had admitted to the shootings at a Labour youth camp and a bombing that killed seven people in Oslo's government district, but that he denies criminal guilt. Norway killer wants chance to explain motive 2011-07-25T10:58:00Z The Labour leader, Ed Miliband, will launch the report on Thursday, endorsing its themes, but will not embrace all its proposals. Paternity leave and pay 'should be doubled' 2014-06-15T04:00:00Z I can't find the words to describe dispassionately what I have gone through but I remember another reason why I gave up on New Labour, on my country. Looking back on New Labour: Peter Akinti 2010-04-03T23:07:00Z In theory, many of the superyachts’ flag states are signatories to the Maritime Labour Convention, which guarantees certain rights to employees. Sun, sea and silver service: what’s it like crewing on a superyacht? 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z The mayor's choice of supper partners was criticised by Labour. Boris Johnson and Rupert Murdoch have another private meeting 2013-01-26T20:04:04Z And she forms a bond with Harold Wilson, a down-to-earth Labour leader with whom the monarch strikes up an unlikely rapport. Mirren reigns as Britain's queen in 'The Audience' 2013-03-06T12:26:09Z If one of the Miliband brothers wins the Labour leadership and becomes prime minister he will confront in an acute form the constraints on the power of the state his father astutely identified. Ralph Miliband and sons 2010-09-06T07:00:00Z "Vote Labour, get a two year stretch!" the person said. J.K. Rowling says she'd rather go to prison than refer to transgender women as women 2023-10-19T04:00:00Z This might strike some readers as rather old-fashioned, but I believe children are now far too indulged by their parents, which is why so many go on to take drugs, become homosexualists and vote Labour. Strictly Ann by Ann Widdecombe – digested 2013-06-16T19:00:02Z Anyway, before Margaret Thatcher flew into power as a Tory superhero, there was even talk of an aristocratic plot to overthrow the Labour Party by military coup. In London, the Latest ‘Richard III’ Is a Bureaucrat 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z Tom Watson, deputy leader of the Labour Party, wrote a letter to McDonald’s U.K. Politician asks McDonald's UK to end Monopoly promotion, says 'ploy encourages people to eat more unhealthy foods' 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z Labour’s shadow health secretary, Jonathan Ashworth, told the Sunday Times that the government was “highly irresponsible” and “in the pocket of big corporate interests”. NHS gives Amazon free use of health data under Alexa advice deal 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z Too many references to the Labour government "eating … alive" the old gentry clang from the pages, just in case we are in danger of missing Waters' thesis. Guardian book club: The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters 2010-08-11T14:06:00Z The red wasn't a conscious decision in terms of "Labour red", just a happy accident; red goes in the eye quickly. General election 2010: the art of the political poster 2010-04-27T07:00:00Z Britain was on the brink of revolution, Driberg told Jagger, “And the Labour party is where a young man should be when it happens.” Elvis and Nixon, Reagan and Jacko, Jagger and Blair … when pop stars and politicians collide 2016-06-19T04:00:00Z Labour depicted the move as a cynical bid by the Lib Dems to distance themselves from an unpopular policy less than a year before the election. Nick Clegg accused of hypocrisy after U-turn on bedroom tax 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z The final three installments — "Elephants Can Remember," "Labours of Hercules" and "Curtain" — will stream in August on Acorn TV. This time, David Suchet's a super-sleuth of sorts in the Vatican 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z In 1990 he published Marxism and the French Left: Studies On Labour and Politics in France 1830-1982, a collection of scholarly essays. Tony Judt obituary 2010-08-08T17:38:00Z The opposition Labour sport spokesman, Clive Efford, said it was “not appropriate” for Evans to return to professional football after his release. Ched Evans leaves prison after serving rape sentence 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z Numbers were boosted by the policy of free entry to permanent collections at national museums, introduced by the Labour government to broaden the demographic of museum visitors in 2001. Making a spectacle of the Old Masters 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z Labour had triangulated on immigration – and so, of course, did many Tories. Will Self walks through Britain's flag-waving heartlands 2013-03-07T11:31:01Z The Labour whips were former miners, electricians: "plebs", as the current Tory chief whip might have it, and proud to be plebs. This House recalls the years when Britain really was a nation in crisis 2012-10-13T23:06:33Z Around half of Labour's candidates selected to fight in marginal seats at the next election have links to Westminster as former special advisers, party workers, researchers, lobbyists or MPs, a Guardian analysis has discovered. Half of Labour candidates in marginal seats are Westminster insiders 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z With Britain in recession and the Conservatives falling in the polls, Cameron's leisure habits have increasingly been criticised by both his Conservative and Labour opponents as a sign of complacency. David Cameron's 'chillaxing' hobbies revealed in new biography 2012-05-19T10:46:51Z It all stems from the 1992 election, when Labour announced a shadow budget and said, quite straightforwardly, that it wanted to raise taxes for the rich to fund pensions and child benefit. Evan Loves Tax; Tony Livesey; Night Waves 2010-09-18T23:05:00Z Only with help from the Beatles, Monty Python and a string of Labour Party victories did R.P. become — briefly — something to mock rather than aspire to. Get to Know Your Larynx. Then Make Some Noise. 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z Such stories may strengthen the resolve of women who are already hostile to the Tories to support opposition parties, which helps to explain why Labour systematically seeks to portray him as a casual misogynist. Does Boris Johnson’s government have a women problem? 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z New Labour fuelled satire with its apparent victory of style over substance, spin over reality. Out of The Thick of It: has the humour left British politics? 2011-02-18T17:08:42Z Speaking at the same meeting, Labour MP Kelvin Hopkins said he backed the move but that any impact on the BBC's funding and its independence must be taken into account. MPs back TV licence fee change 2014-03-25T14:52:57Z The posters and adverts Labour are using for this election are terrible; it's as if they haven't put any thought into them at all, just sent them to the newspapers to grab that day's headlines. General election 2010: the art of the political poster 2010-04-27T07:00:00Z Blair cut Labour adrift from its old moorings in the unions, which once provided a two-way connection to popular thinking. Philip Gould: An Unfinished Life, edited by Dennis Kavanagh - review 2012-09-26T07:30:04Z Straw is tribal Labour; his maternal grandfather was a Transport and General Workers' Union shop steward, his mother a Labour councillor. Last Man Standing by Jack Straw - review 2012-10-02T11:29:00Z “But since Jeremy Corbyn took over as leader, it hasn’t stood in elections. It is not standing in opposition to Labour.” Ken Loach: ‘If you’re not angry, what kind of person are you?’ 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z You have a majority of only 1,252 in Brighton Pavilion and it's one of Labour's 106 target seats – what makes you think you can hold them off? Caroline Lucas: 'Politics is about everything we do' 2013-07-27T23:05:02Z Labour's obsession with contemporary chic has underestimated the intelligence and curiosity of a country that can no longer be characterised, after this divided election result, as either modern or old-fashioned. Tate Modern's birthday was a soulless celebration 2010-05-17T10:49:00Z The former Labour party member had initially wanted to stay on, but Downing Street sources indicated that the new coalition government was not in favour. BBC Trust's Lyons looks back on successes and 'memorable cock-ups' 2011-03-09T18:30:48Z Sandbrook is a historian whose books include Never Had It So Good and Mad as Hell The 1964 general election was hotly contested and narrowly decided – power went to Labour by an exceedingly slender majority. Five decades of the Observer Magazine 2011-07-30T23:05:00Z The pen is presented, as are all the items on the Labour and Wait site, in solitary splendor on a white background. The Robust Preciousness of Labour and Wait 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z Even the Labour prime minister Harold Wilson, the antithesis of an imperial statesman, insisted that Britain’s “frontiers were on the Himalayas.” Britain and the U.S.: A Forced and Unequal Marriage 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z The Labour leader, Ed Miliband, on Monday described Starkey's comments on race as "disgusting and outrageous". David Starkey's Newsnight race remarks: hundreds complain to BBC 2011-08-15T15:27:05Z Can a future Labour government succeed where past governments have failed and harness capitalism to a vision of social improvement? Ralph Miliband and sons 2010-09-06T07:00:00Z Doran revealed it was the fist time the Shakespeare comedies Love's Labour's Lost and Much Ado About Nothing had been paired. RSC double bill to commemorate WWI 2014-02-04T14:02:23Z There will also be something of a first when Love's Labour's Lost is performed in British sign language by the Deafinitely Theatre company. Speak the speech ... Shakespeare's plays to be performed in 38 languages 2011-01-20T18:26:01Z He then started to search around for an artistic director, eventually securing former New Labour arts advisor Ruth Mackenzie. Stephen Daldry and Danny Boyle: masters of Olympic ceremonies 2010-06-17T09:43:00Z According to the UN’s International Labour Organization, about 1.3 million children work in tobacco fields, with the number increasing in certain countries like India and Zimbabwe. Bitter leaves: tobacco's devastating global legacy 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z In early October, during a debate in parliament on the new domestic abuse bill, Labour MP Rosie Duffield’s account of her own experience of coercive control provoked moved many MPs to tears. ‘Intimate terrorism’: how an abusive relationship led a young woman to kill her partner 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z The BBC understands that the Labour Party is calling for a system of civil penalties to be piloted before any decriminalisation change is implemented. MPs back TV licence fee change 2014-03-25T14:52:57Z Anyway, before Margaret Thatcher flew into power as a Tory superhero, there was even talk of an aristocrat plot to overthrow the Labour Party by military coup. London Theater Journal: The Despot Behind a Desk 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z The intervention by the European commission was welcomed by Healey who is facing a battle in the Labour movement against the EU-US trade deal. European official commits to safeguarding NHS in EU-US trade deal 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z She was a fellow at Harvard University's WEB Du Bois Institute and wrote reports and provided assistance for gatherings such as the African American Labour Leaders' Economic Summit. Hazel Rowley obituary 2011-03-13T18:28:12Z He has been a parliamentary candidate for the Labour party and more recently the Green party in 2007, and is a prominent campaigner for gay rights. Ricky Martin comes out as gay 2010-03-30T00:36:00Z At the same time, local Labour groups can announce they are launching a national campaign with local and national organisations and unions etc to demand money from the government to fully fund services. Letters: Beecham's bitter pill for opponents of arts cuts 2012-12-21T20:59:02Z Harman acknowledges that although Labour, when last in power, provided generous financial support to the arts, they were not always good at talking about it in public. Harriet Harman: 'We get the arts' 2013-02-11T20:00:06Z Aside from stints at Chichester festival theatre and as advisor to Labour culture secretaries, she ran the Cultural Olympiad under Tony Hall's chairmanship, and she's now in need of a job. Who should take over at the Royal Opera House? 2012-11-23T12:01:00Z Sharon Hodgson, the shadow equalities minister, said Labour was already doing a lot to increase its appeal through its Future Candidates programme, which helps give people from non-political backgrounds the skills to run for selection. Half of Labour candidates in marginal seats are Westminster insiders 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z New Labour bounded into office in 1997, committed to doing something about architecture and cities. What have Labour done for architecture? 2010-04-21T20:30:00Z They learned to read in Russian, went to university in Prague, considered themselves hybrid Hungarian-Czechs and, eventually, proud Londoners, lifelong Labour voters yet devoted to “the Kveen.” A Search for My Grandmother’s Lost Chicken Paprikash 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z "It neither makes sense to get into an adoration of the magi stance of the New Labour project, nor a repudiationist stance," he says, at one point. David and Ed Miliband on sibling rivalry 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z Wednesday night's broadcast follows an attempt by Labour to persuade the Tories and Lib Dems to put joint pressure on the main broadcasters to change the focus of election reporting. Get me Jack Bauer - Labour calls in 24 director to revive election campaign 2010-04-26T23:05:00Z David has tested out the formula Next Labour, but quickly abandoned it. David and Ed Miliband on sibling rivalry 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z By contrast, Labour policy wonk David Miliband spent so long in lecture rooms with climate boffins in 2006 and 2007 that he had been moved to the Foreign Office before he got out of school. Advice for a new government 2010-05-07T23:07:00Z Despite the soap opera aspects of the Blair-Brown family feud, American readers are unlikely to be terribly interested in this book’s many detailed discussions of Labour Party politics. Books of The Times: At the Center of the Storm, but Still a Mystery 2010-09-01T20:10:00Z Yet an exhaustive and exhausting number of entries are concerned with spats with the media or rows within the New Labour team about the media, battles which were rarely of any long-term consequence. The Alastair Campbell Diaries Volume One: Prelude to Power 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z Read this memoir and you should never need to ask again why Labour gives the benefit of the doubt to single-parent families and recipients of disability benefit. This Boy: A Memoir of a Childhood by Alan Johnson – review 2013-05-02T13:00:01Z Also up in 2012-13: the Bard's "Love's Labours Lost" and "The Taming of the Shrew." Seattle Shakespeare Co.'s 'As You Like It' opens June 1 2012-05-31T20:23:10Z Some of Britain's best novelists look back on the New Labour years in the Observer's New Review this Sunday. Video: The Observer Conversation: Has pop culture affected politics? 2010-04-01T16:37:00Z It is because American finance-capitalism, the model for virtually everything that New Labour ever did, has blown itself up. Ralph Miliband and sons 2010-09-06T07:00:00Z Watson resigned last week, explaining that the continuing rows over the party's Falkirk selection process were a deciding factor for him stepping down as Labour's general election co-ordinator – and citing Drenge as a recent influence. Drenge 'not totally overjoyed' about MP Tom Watson's name check 2013-07-08T10:57:00Z So, exhausted, demoralised, lacking confidence in myself and in my abilities, I left London and New Labour for good. Looking back on New Labour: Peter Akinti 2010-04-03T23:07:00Z Another interventionist artist, Rebecca Head, has posted a picture of a kid's blackboard in an Ikea store, on which she has chalked "Vote Labour". Simon Roberts puts political England in the frame 2010-04-12T15:49:00Z Both are engineers, vegans and Labour supporters, in a staunchly Conservative part of the country. ‘We didn’t recognise that he was dangerous’: our father killed our mother and sister 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z “And as soon as Labour won the election in ’97, it’s when everybody went, ‘Ahh.’ Saint Etienne looks to the past but limits the nostalgia 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z A series that charted the demise of the old Labour movement without sentimentality, but with an underlying rage at the times. Box Set Club: Our Friends in the North 2011-07-19T13:29:17Z What was the last of his Twelve Labours? Royal babies in literature - quiz 2013-07-24T12:31:36Z In short, here is God’s plenty, 4,000 pages in which to lose oneself as one does in, say, Boswell’s “Life of Johnson” or Henry Mayhew’s “London Labour and the London Poor.” ‘The Complete Works of Auden’ showcases writings beyond the poetry 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z I got involved in my local Labour party. ‘I was given a second chance’: six people describe their life changes 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z Again and again, on my last visit I heard the refrain "Labour took the vote for granted". Election memories 2010-04-09T23:07:00Z When Labour's Wrongs and Labour's Remedy was published in 1839 it became influential. Not in York's guidebooks - yet. Take a walk through radical York 2013-01-16T07:01:00Z But they certainly couldn't give an argument for Labour for me at the moment – not a valid one. Ant and Dec: just the two of us 2013-02-23T09:00:00Z So I've gone for a rosy red, a kind of New New Labour red. General election 2010: the art of the political poster 2010-04-27T07:00:00Z Every Labour speech is seen as part of the leadership contest, as if the starving French army, retreating from Moscow, devoted its time to arguing about who should replace Napoleon. Simon Hoggart's week: Same old voices, different sides 2010-05-28T23:13:00Z His experience of Labour Zionism had a further effect of imbuing a lifelong suspicion of all forms of ideology and identity politics. Tony Judt obituary 2010-08-08T17:38:00Z "Too many Labour party meetings begin with the minutes of the last meeting," he said sternly. Labour watches the Eddie and Ed show 2010-09-29T18:17:00Z In contrast to Labour, which has selected more women than men, fewer than a third of the Conservative party's candidates in these seats are female. Half of Labour candidates in marginal seats are Westminster insiders 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z In this regard it succeeded and transformed British politics in a very fundamental way, culminating in Labour's defeat in the 2010 general election. Tony Benn: 'What is really significant about Tony Blair was that he set up a new political party, New Labour' 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z The secondary school cut is in part connected to the Labour government's decision to abandon its "national strategies" programme two years ago. Public sector cuts: where they will hit 2011-03-25T08:30:00Z They could not understand why Smith's appetite for constitutional Labour Party reform seemed so easily sated. What if John Smith had lived? 2011-04-07T20:00:15Z These cuts are presented as the hacking away of Labour excess, the pragmatic cure for the last lot's fiscal foolery. Coalition's cuts are final betrayal of Stonehenge 2010-06-18T15:54:00Z What’s more, though their subjects may be absolutely of the moment, “Labour of Love,” an anxious comedy, and “Albion,” a state-of-the-nation drama, are both old-fashioned in form. On London Stages, Britain Considers Its Divided Soul 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z Izzard, a Labour supporter, said the Yes to AV campaign is "pushing for civilisation". Alternative vote system would see MPs denied 'jobs for life', says Dyke 2011-04-02T12:52:21Z These are the years that saw the creation of New Labour and the forging of a formidable campaign team of which Campbell was unquestionably a key part. The Alastair Campbell Diaries Volume One: Prelude to Power 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z Latham • Just imagine if every Labour council in Britain put a leaflet through our doors. Letters: Beecham's bitter pill for opponents of arts cuts 2012-12-21T20:59:02Z Labour MP Austin Mitchell sums up the coalition government. This week: Tony Blair, Diandra Douglas and Floella Benjamin 2010-07-02T23:06:00Z “Of all the accusations you could hurl at him, being a sexist is actually the least of it,” says Gisela Stuart, the former Labour MP who chaired Vote Leave. Does Boris Johnson’s government have a women problem? 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z “I consider myself a highly political person in everything I do,” says the writer, who up until recently was the chair of his local Labour party. 'The show needed to come back': how Drake rescued the druglords of Top Boy 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z What was more, the gallery had been opened by Clement Attlee in 1950 as part of the Labour party's postwar commitment to ensuring popular appreciation of the arts as part of a social democratic state. Don't patronise urban communities – give them the William Morris Gallery 2013-06-06T08:00:01Z The book was published when Labour was still in power but references to incidents that took place before the party lost the 2010 general election were withdrawn from the manuscript. Spies chilled about Spooks but military heated over memoirs 2013-02-14T16:25:47Z When deputy Labour leader Tom Watson recently complained that his party was being infiltrated by Trotskyists, was he talking about people like Loach? Ken Loach: ‘If you’re not angry, what kind of person are you?’ 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z Late last year another Labour borough in London, Brent, faced similar criticism for opting to close half its libraries. Lambeth council lambasted for arts centre sale 2012-02-13T18:00:01Z Yet, though I feel proud of my achievements and sad at the direction the Labour party is now taking, my journey is not over. Digested read: Tony Blair A Journey 2010-09-01T17:49:00Z Is she the granddaughter of the former Labour party leader George Lansbury? Game of Thrones: is Angela Lansbury heading for Westeros? 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z Except that he definitely hasn't read the last rule: "Labour to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience." Rules of Civility by Amor Towles ? review 2011-07-15T13:46:01Z “I was always very anxious about the state of the Labour Party and, to a degree, wanted to participate in that,” he said. The Return of Tony Blair 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z As proved by her prodigious blogging at a site called Velvet Coalmine, she draws on a range of reference points, from the Spice Girls to the left-leaning conservatism of "Blue Labour". Clampdown: Pop-cultural Wars on Class and Gender by Rhian E Jones – review 2013-05-16T06:00:08Z Set in the parliament during the rapidly collapsing Labour government of the late 70s, This House by James Graham draws out, wrote Billington, "the madness of life in the Westminster village". Stage reader review roundup: your take on Damned by Despair and This House 2012-10-12T15:11:55Z The Labour movement had lost contact with modern culture, he argued in the pages of Marxism Today magazine in the 1980s. Eric Hobsbawm changed how we think about culture 2012-10-02T14:29:06Z Scottish Labour MP Rhoda Grant recently unsuccessfully tried to force the government to criminalize the purchase of sex. Edinburgh to end sex in saunas 2014-01-07T13:45:00Z What we get is further elaboration of the dysfunctional relationships at the apex of New Labour and more evidence of how they used the media to prosecute their deforming rivalries. The Alastair Campbell Diaries Volume One: Prelude to Power 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z Like Tony Blair's New Labour, they wore their suits well, they exuded naive positivity and they stood no chance of realising the expectations vested in them. How Menswear typified Cool Britannia and Britain's creation myth 2012-11-23T12:50:55Z Appearing in a Fabian Society essay during his campaign for the Labour leadership, this sentence by epitomises what is distinctive about him as a politician as well as his greatest challenge as Labour leader. Ed: The Milibands and the Making of a Labour Leader by Mehdi Hasan and James Macintyre - review 2011-07-15T21:55:11Z This Sunday, at 5 p.m., the Hip to Hip Theater Company will present a performance of Shakespeare’s comedy “Love’s Labour’s Lost”; audience members should provide their own seating. Spare Times for Aug. 9-15 2013-08-08T21:59:57Z I have mixed feelings about Labour, especially regarding the war in Iraq, and the fact that what people really felt about it wasn't taken into consideration. General election 2010: the art of the political poster 2010-04-27T07:00:00Z The progenitor of “Love Island” was “Ibiza Uncovered,” which first aired on Sky One in the summer of 1997, a few months after a landslide general election victory for the Labour Party. The Glorious Depravity of the British “Love Island” 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z Hattersley, like Lloyd George, takes pride in presenting himself as a political maverick, while his experience as deputy leader of the Labour party has given him an insider's view of the shark tank. The Great Outsider: David Lloyd George by Roy Hattersley 2010-10-02T13:34:00Z Despite devolution, Pugh finds Labour guilty of failing to treat constitutional matters as a priority. Speak for Britain!: A New History of the Labour Party by Martin Pugh | Book review 2010-03-21T00:08:00Z Caborn is standing down, and the new Labour candidate hasn't yet got much of a profile. Election memories 2010-04-09T23:07:00Z Labour's weak showing in Scotland reveals what could be a massive vulnerability. Ed: The Milibands and the Making of a Labour Leader by Mehdi Hasan and James Macintyre - review 2011-07-15T21:55:11Z Globally, nearly 21 million people are victims of human trafficking, according to the International Labour Organization. Actress Gillian Anderson says horror of child trafficking cast her in real-life role 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z If the cooking show was inspired by her mother, this one came from canvassing with her father, Paul, a Labour Party member of Westminster City Council. Finding Love, One Nugget at a Time 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z The housing review is one of the five big policy decisions awaiting Labour, including funding of the NHS, a growth review led by Lord Adonis, the future structure of railways and its overall fiscal stance. Labour: let cities grow by lifting the cap on councils' borrowing 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z In recent decades it was probably Harold Wilson – four times Labour PM between 1964 and 1976 – who first spotted the scope for sounding "with it", as they said in the swinging sixties. When politicians go pop – the perils of trying to appear 'in touch' 2012-12-18T14:30:01Z Here it is, in no particular order: Jon Cruddas I don't think he's up for it, for much the same reasons as he hasn't joined the Labour leadership race. Oona or Ken for London Mayor. Anyone else? 2010-05-24T12:54:00Z Still, I suppose I've been brought up that, whatever happens, you vote Labour. Maxine Peake: 'People go to therapy. I've got a hoover' – interview 2013-03-24T00:02:01Z A city without the arts is a city that promotes ignorance, and that goes against everything Labour should be about. Labour championing Banksy? It's a betrayal of party values 2013-02-27T15:26:06Z When the Liberal Party disintegrated after the rise of Labour, Churchill conveniently “re-ratted” back to the Conservatives, where Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin put him unhappily in charge of the nation’s finances. Is This the Best One-Volume Biography of Churchill Yet Written? 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z In his eyes the undergrowth was populated by a toxic combination of media enemies, leftwing intellectuals and old Labour thugs who never "got aspiration". Fiona Millar: 'His perceptions about people and acute eye for the comic make it a good read' 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z The best to be said for this whiskery hour is that the nostalgia-prone will enjoy a last chance to hear Prescott, Blunkett and Howard impersonated, as Bremner recaps the New Labour era. Rory Bremner 2010-04-18T21:15:00Z A New History of the Labour Party by Martin Pugh | Book review This article appeared on p43 of the The New Review section of the Observer on Sunday 21 March 2010. Speak for Britain!: A New History of the Labour Party by Martin Pugh | Book review 2010-03-21T00:08:00Z In Stratford-upon-Avon the following year, he played Osric in Hamlet, Lorenzo in The Merchant of Venice and Dumaine in Love's Labour's Lost, a favourite play that he directed 10 years later at Regent's Park. David William obituary 2010-08-23T17:41:00Z The severity of the cuts split the Labour government and prompted the formation of a national government led by MacDonald. What the 21st century can learn from the 1929 crash | Larry Elliott 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z The Labour Party under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown was nearly as alienated from the working class, Mr. Jones argues. Books of The Times: Get Your Bling and Adidas Tracksuit, Wayne, a British Class War Is Raging 2011-07-12T20:59:50Z Defeat of Labour at a general election is seen as a victory for Britain. This Happy Breed ? review 2011-07-27T17:30:04Z Yes, because, if Labour loses, it will be the Tory panther's "joy of life" that wins. Franz Kafka's election guide 2010-04-08T09:15:00Z Would he consider leaving Left Unity and rejoining Labour? Ken Loach: ‘If you’re not angry, what kind of person are you?’ 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z When I was researching my book about New Labour, The End of the Party, I found it inadvisable to rely on Campbell as an accurate recorder of conversations and events. The Alastair Campbell Diaries Volume One: Prelude to Power 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z “Uniform requirements are one thing, but to impose heels and makeup is going too far,” Anette Trettebergstuen, Norwegian Labour Party’s women’s spokesperson, agreed. Norwegian Air says flight attendants must have doctor's note to avoid wearing heels: report 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z The renowned British actor waded into U.K. politics in mid-May when he urged voters to back the Labour Party's candidate Wes Streeting on June 8. How Your Favorite British Celebs are Voting in the U.K.'s General Election 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z Most health ministers, both Labour and Tory, in recent decades have promoted it. We love the NHS too much to make it better 2013-03-09T06:31:01Z "Labour is a high taxation party, Labour is a trade union party, Labour is a nationalisation party and Labour is not as sound as the Tories on foreign issues," he lamented. Modernity Britain: Opening the Box by David Kynaston – review 2013-06-15T07:01:01Z Of the two productions, though, “Love’s Labour’s” emerges by some measure as the strongest, partly because Mr. Luscombe has neatly filleted a knotty text whose language can sometimes be opaque to modern ears. Katherine Soper’s ‘Wish List’ Blazes on London Stage 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z I was a Labour party activist at the time, so not a fan of hers. Derek Ridgers's best photograph – PIL fans kissing in 1979 2013-07-03T17:30:00Z Beyond matching the character in age, the actress has rejoined her profession after 23 years as a Labour member of Parliament, that peppery voice still singularly capable of slicing the air. Review: Glenda Jackson Rivets as King Lear in Her Return to the Stage 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z As a result it informs without teaching the lessons that Labour needs to learn. Speak for Britain!: A New History of the Labour Party by Martin Pugh | Book review 2010-03-21T00:08:00Z But I'm going to vote Labour in this election. General election 2010: the art of the political poster 2010-04-27T07:00:00Z Labour MPs joined with the Tories' coalition partners to force the affordable homes bill, sponsored by Andrew George MP, through a second reading vote by 306 to 231. Bedroom tax bill splits coalition as Lib-Lab pact forces second reading 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z So none of the three dictators would have found fault with Labour's kitsch vision of a nuclear couple, who have apparently given birth to puppets, staring across iridescent green fields towards a blazing sun. General election 2010: Labour's strange field trip 2010-04-12T16:50:00Z In the early 1980s Mr. Uglow learned the bass guitar and played in a rock band called Hard Labour. Alan Uglow, Abstract Painter, Dies at 69 2011-02-02T05:47:58Z “It’s made me think I probably am going to vote Labour,” Wainwright tells him. Rob Delaney meets Sally Wainwright: ‘People say, God, you’ve got a sick mind’ 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z Labour's Keith Vaz asks Clegg if he will consider travelling to New Zealand to encourage the New Zealand government to change the legislation relating to succession to the throne. Grayling's rehabilitation speech and Clegg taking DPMQs: Politics live blog 2012-11-20T16:11:00Z The communist collapse and globalisation had consigned socialism to the memory hole, while the New Labour project of marrying social democratic values with an American-style free market was already taking shape. Ed: The Milibands and the Making of a Labour Leader by Mehdi Hasan and James Macintyre - review 2011-07-15T21:55:11Z Gove's remarks were criticized by Robinson, a well-known activist for the opposition Labour Party. A war over 'Blackadder' and Britain's legacy of WWI 2014-01-08T00:03:32Z Kevin Humphreys, a Labour party junior minister, said turnout was high in both working-class and middle-class parts of his Dublin South East constituency. Ireland gay marriage referendum: high urban turnout boosts yes hopes 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z He lived, he explained, by “the Labour of my Hands.” A radical for our time: Benjamin Lay, the Quaker dwarf abolitionist you didn't learn about in class 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z But, although Labour ends up with a slender majority of three after the October 1974 election, things get rougher and tougher. This House – review 2012-10-09T22:01:01Z The surprise is that the Labour minority government lasted as long as it did. This House recalls the years when Britain really was a nation in crisis 2012-10-13T23:06:33Z Ralph Miliband did not live to see his son become New Labour's director of policy under Tony Blair two months later at the age of 29. David and Ed Miliband on sibling rivalry 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z The Labour MP Yvette Cooper, chair of the home affairs select committee, said: “Is this what these men demand in order to donate to charitable causes? Utterly appalling and shameful.” Presidents Club to close down after claims of harassment at ‘hostess’ gala 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z I have spent my adult life voting and campaigning for a British Labour party. What's the future of the Union? 2011-08-27T23:05:40Z Not just for the hatred and abuse but for the vilification constantly of Labour MPs and Labour leaders. Caroline Flack: politicians condemn press intrusion after presenter's death 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z He hardly considered Labour party policy on Spain as policy at all, vacillating as it did between supporting ‘democracy’ on the one hand and the ‘Republic’ on the other: both positions entirely rhetorical. The war that made Orwell 2014-01-11T15:00:00Z A prominent recent example is the former deputy Labour leader Tom Watson, 52. Lose 220kg, beat back pain, love yourself: personal trainers on lessons that changed their lives 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z Blame for inflation and unemployment rested, in his eyes, squarely with the Labour Party policies of James Callaghan and the country’s trade unions. Paul Johnson, Prolific Historian Prized by Conservatives, Dies at 94 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z The center-right party, led by Prime Minister Theresa May initially looked on course for a landslide victory - but over the ensuing weeks the gap between the Tories and Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party has narrowed. How Your Favorite British Celebs are Voting in the U.K.'s General Election 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z From then on through the 90s, I recall reading Scottish National party manifestos and thinking, they're to the left of Labour. What's the future of the Union? 2011-08-27T23:05:40Z For example, one prominent candidate, Mari Williams, standing in the target seat of Cardiff North, has been a deputy headteacher, as well as working as a political lobbyist and for Labour party HQ. Half of Labour candidates in marginal seats are Westminster insiders 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z Dumfries and Galloway's Labour MP Russell Brown said it appeared to be a "sensible way forward". South Scotland ITV overhaul unveiled 2013-07-23T13:54:44Z The opposition Labour Party's calls for a cut in immigration levels is seen as an attempt to exploit the issue ahead of the elections it is widely expected to lose on current opinion polls. Vibrant New Zealand economy, tranquil lifestyle stoke migration boom 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z Keszler, who said he had no involvement in Slave Labour coming to Florida this week, defended the auction house and its right to sell the artwork. Banksy mural mystery deepens as it heads for sale in Miami 2013-02-20T13:55:00Z Gould rightly told Labour that it should speak to "ordinary people", mostly middle-class or expecting to become so, in their own language, divesting itself of the class-war rhetoric of the 1970s and 1980s. Philip Gould: An Unfinished Life, edited by Dennis Kavanagh - review 2012-09-26T07:30:04Z As shadow home secretary, and then as home secretary, he proposed illiberal policies, such as increasing police powers and restricting jury trials, mainly because he didn't want Labour to be thought "soft on crime". Last Man Standing by Jack Straw - review 2012-10-02T11:29:00Z Talking about sleep is as dull as talking about how much you drank the night before; as talking about the Labour party with a politics bro in a crowded bar. How sleep became the new must-have 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z A deal was reached with Lend Lease only last July, after Labour won control of the council in May. Anger surrounds demise of 1970s housing estate 2011-02-07T20:33:13Z The Aldermaston march, the CND symbol and its slogan "Ban the Bomb" became an integral part of the youth culture of the 1960s, shaping Labour party policy long into the 1980s. October 1962: the month that modern culture was born 2012-09-29T22:12:23Z According to figures from the International Labour Organization, 40 million people were victims of modern slavery in 2016, including nearly 5 million in forced sexual exploitation, 99% of them women. The explosive film lifting the lid on sex trafficking between India and LA 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z He was a prominent donor to the Labour party before denouncing Blair's invasion of Iraq; as a staunch advocate of proportional representation, he is intrigued to see how the coalition government will proceed. Peter Gabriel: 'It doesn't have anything to do with witchcraft!' 2010-06-02T20:30:00Z For words do fail, ultimately, in “Love’s Labour’s Lost,” which ends not with a multiple wedding but with preparations for a funeral. Theater Review: ‘Love’s Labour’s Lost,’ at Hudson Valley Shakespeare Fest 2012-07-31T22:20:55Z That "light touch" on finance and business and her desire to "roll back the frontiers of the state" was little challenged by 13 years of Labour under Gordon Brown and Tony Blair. The Spirit of '45: where did it go? 2013-03-02T16:00:02Z There was then-Stoke City striker James Beattie, who explained his aversion to Labour thusly: "Obviously this tax hike is a big concern for me and other footballers." The Tory fundraising ball that lays bare the crisis facing Celebrity Conservatism 2013-02-07T18:50:15Z For the way he tells it, every other player at the heart of New Labour was emotionally unstable and borderline crazy. The Alastair Campbell Diaries Volume One: Prelude to Power 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z The tradition of the poster as contemporary art is, in fact, not Labour but Tory: it was the Saatchi & Saatchi poster "Labour isn't working" that created the whole idea of stylish, eye-catching campaigning. General election 2010: the art of the political poster 2010-04-27T07:00:00Z Something like "I know how to fix the economy" or "Under Labour, we'll cut the deficit and increase public spending". Ed Miliband looks as gormless as Wallace but in a totally different way 2012-12-16T00:06:04Z But while the paper set out to provoke the Labour leader, the public dispute with Clooney stems from the Mail Online site. George Clooney row with Daily Mail boils over as actor shuns apology 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z Labour's "Ashes to Ashes" posters will be displayed on electronic billboards from London to Manchester, after it was chosen from around 1,000 entries. David Cameron depicted as Gene Hunt in Labour poster 2010-04-02T20:16:00Z Even on the night of the first, sensational election triumph, when Tory seat after seat is tumbling to Labour, he is miserable. The Alastair Campbell Diaries Volume One: Prelude to Power 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z Interestingly, the commitment to Tate Modern was made not by the Labour government but by a Conservative government, in 1995, when Virginia Bottomley supported the creation of Tate Modern. 10 years of Tate Modern 2010-04-24T23:07:00Z This was the great faultline running through the New Labour administration, and few outside the inner circle knew quite how bad the situation was. The Burden of Power: Countdown to Iraq by Alastair Campbell – review 2012-06-21T07:00:01Z There are moves to table a vote at the TUC congress in September and there is pressure for an emergency motion to be tabled at Labour's annual conference. European official commits to safeguarding NHS in EU-US trade deal 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z He points the finger at Labour's former chief spin doctor. Why politicians fight shy of campaigning on the arts 2010-04-28T05:00:00Z Clegg says that directly elected police commissioners are not that different from the directly elected members of police authorities proposed by Labour. Grayling's rehabilitation speech and Clegg taking DPMQs: Politics live blog 2012-11-20T16:11:00Z Tony Blair was in town for the Labour party conference, but apparently he got word of the march, so, by the time we were marching past the building he’d disappeared in a helicopter. 'Think about the bigger picture': life lessons from Meryl Streep and other successful women 2017-01-21T05:00:00Z The same enlivening rage would be evident when she took on what she probably regarded as her greatest role, a Labour Party member of the British Parliament, where she served for 23 years. Glenda Jackson, an Unnervingly Energizing Presence at Every Age 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z “Love’s Labour’s Lost” isn’t the master comedy that “Much Ado” is, and only purists will object to most liberties taken with a show that is, by Shakespeare’s standards, a trifle. Theater Review: ‘Love’s Labour’s Lost,’ Loosely Speaking, in Central Park 2013-08-13T02:00:01Z These are the people who are returning to Labour, yet as Wolf says, the Tories continue to treat women as a homogenous, largely middle-class bloc, hence their fadging about female directors and candidates. Michael Winner, David Cameron and the Tories' approach to women 2013-01-25T17:45:30Z Grant is also due to campaign on behalf of remain-minded Labour candidates, and said his “personal fantasy” for the election would be another hung parliament with MPs in charge. Hugh Grant: 'I want to do my bit to prevent a national catastrophe' 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z In fact Labour split, which more than any other single factor enabled the continuing dominance of Thatcher. Ralph Miliband and sons 2010-09-06T07:00:00Z He alleged that the Labour MP in question had been arrested in the past, including for public indecency in a toilet, but that nothing had come of it. Police investigating claims of child sex abuse against a senior Labour MP 2015-07-19T04:00:00Z That was at the height of New Labour's success. Bring on the blood-spattered bodies – the Tories are in power 2012-06-01T13:18:17Z Blair's Christianity made me angry, and New Labour was a joke. Tim Roth: who's the daddy? 2012-05-20T19:00:12Z The stoking of fear precipitates the murder of the Labour Party M.P. In “Brexit,” Benedict Cumberbatch Is a Peculiar Man Who Wants to Upend the Order of the World 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z Disconnectedness pervades this “Love’s Labour’s Lost,” which is a surprise, given the triumphant and audacious cohesiveness of Mr. Timbers and Mr. Friedman’s “Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson,” which improbably used emo music to explore 19th-century populism. Theater Review: ‘Love’s Labour’s Lost,’ Loosely Speaking, in Central Park 2013-08-13T02:00:01Z Yet having shown no previous commitment to Conservative politics – she is believed to have flirted with the Labour party as a student – she is far from easy to pin down ideologically. Claire Perry: a new breed of iron lady 2012-05-27T20:53:51Z Tony Blair and others warned that if no one had won the 2010 election, Labour had lost it and should accept defeat. 5 Days in May: The Coalition and Beyond by Andrew Adonis – review 2013-05-13T07:00:03Z It twists a famous quote from a Labour prime minister of the era, Harold Wilson, by adding: "You've never had it so often." New Lloyd Webber musical tackles '60s Profumo affair 2013-12-20T01:19:01Z "It has been quite quiet since the Labour years, but now we are actively seeking to put political theatre back in the mix." The fringe turns angry as shows plan to deliver a political punch 2013-07-20T11:30:29Z But Guardians will overtake both by the end of next weekend's final summer session over the Labour Day holiday, becoming the top movie of the year so far. Guardians of the Galaxy rule the roost as Hollywood looks to summer 2015 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z David Edgar, playwright and president of the Writers' Guild Making galleries free was one of the jewels in the crown of Labour's arts policy, but it does make them very dependent on sponsorship. Crude awakening: BP and the Tate 2010-06-30T20:31:00Z These are precisely the questions that face Miliband's sons as they contend for the Labour leadership. Ralph Miliband and sons 2010-09-06T07:00:00Z This afternoon, there is none of what Labour’s Tom Watson calls “the brilliantly rhetorical speeches”. Mark Serwotka: ‘I read on Twitter eight weeks ago that I was dead’ 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z Miller wrote to her opposite number, Harriet Harman, accusing Labour of reducing lottery funding to the arts while in power and failing to encourage philanthropic giving. Tories hit back at Labour over arts funding 2013-07-03T16:01:45Z She became determined to pull her family from the threat of the violence back home that stemmed from the political conflict between the Jamaican Labour Party and People's National Party. I grew callaloo to spite my mom: How cooking a Jamaican dish healed old wounds, plus how to make it 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z TH And what do you think the response of the Labour party should be? From Marx to the Milibands 2011-01-16T00:04:08Z As the movies screened, the leader of Britain’s opposition Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, was facing accusations of tolerating anti-Semitism, something he denies. Israeli filmmaker Gitai raps Israel in 'Letter to A Friend in Gaza' 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z Many readers will want to know why, given this background, Johnson, though initially a Marxist and later a militant union general secretary, eventually moved to Labour's Blairite right. This Boy: A Memoir of a Childhood by Alan Johnson – review 2013-05-02T13:00:01Z Then Oxford, for study and a bit of student politics and not much else, followed by New Labour of course, David with Tony, Ed with Gordon. TV review: Miliband of Brothers 2010-09-24T21:00:00Z "It does not pay to retire early but it is rather punished," said Anders Forslund, professor and assistant director-general of The Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy, a government agency. Sweden's pensions and parent policies keep old age worries at bay 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z Dressed as a policeman, he calmly shot down Labour Party youngsters at the summer camp. Norway killer makes court appearance 2011-07-25T16:54:00Z The Labour arts dinner is designed to reaffirm what the party describes as its "resolute relationship" with Britain's artistic community. Anish Kapoor and Antony Gormley donate works for Labour auction 2013-03-20T13:25:12Z Labour’s energy spokeswoman, Caroline Flint, told BBC’s Daily Politics programme: “I think it’s really difficult for her to stay.” Fiona Woolf faces new questions from MPs over links with Lord Brittan 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z Labour will be fortunate if its young prince proves to be as skilful in responding to radical shifts in events as he has been in inching his way to power. Ed: The Milibands and the Making of a Labour Leader by Mehdi Hasan and James Macintyre - review 2011-07-15T21:55:11Z In recent years, Loach has been active in political parties such as Respect and Left Unity that have presented themselves as an alternative to Labour. Ken Loach: ‘If you’re not angry, what kind of person are you?’ 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z I think the existing system tends to benefit the Labour party. Cameron steps up AV attack while celebrities rally to the cause 2011-04-01T23:26:29Z The Sun on Sunday reported that police were told the Labour MP particularly sought to abuse “young ragamuffins” and had boys sent to his room in a hotel near a police station. Police investigating claims of child sex abuse against a senior Labour MP 2015-07-19T04:00:00Z Yet multiple implausibilities soon piled up, including a general election contested exclusively by Labour and the Conservatives, plus wildly inconsistent character arcs. Killing Eve to Game of Thrones: the biggest TV disappointments of 2019 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z It occurs at a time when the world economy is in a crisis the founders of New Labour believed to be impossible. Ralph Miliband and sons 2010-09-06T07:00:00Z The book also claims that while New Labour was seen to rely to heavily on political pollsters, Cameron has a predilection for political betting websites. David Cameron's 'chillaxing' hobbies revealed in new biography 2012-05-19T10:46:51Z On Wednesday Labour launched its "One Nation arts tour", in which the shadow culture minister Dan Jarvis plans to visit cities around the UK hearing from arts organisations and discussing the party's plans. Tories hit back at Labour over arts funding 2013-07-03T16:01:45Z With nine days to go before polling day, Labour has recruited Hopkins to take charge of its new election broadcast. Get me Jack Bauer - Labour calls in 24 director to revive election campaign 2010-04-26T23:05:00Z Greene thought the socialists were "such bores", Yorke dreaded the raised taxes on his family business, Bowen couldn't bear "little middle-class Labour wets". The Love-Charm of Bombs: Restless Lives in the Second World War – review 2013-01-18T09:00:02Z The Labour MP said that Tory "ideological contempt" for the BBC meant that it was critical that the appointment of a BBC Trust chairman should be done independently of the government of the day. Tory 'contempt' for BBC means MPs should select chair, Hunt told 2010-12-30T11:53:51Z If only this doctoral student of absolutely everything was familiar with the famous observation Clement Attlee once made of Labour party chairman Harold Laski: “A period of silence on your part would be welcome.” Protest all you like, Susan Sarandon. In effect you work for Trump 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z Yet it is easy to forget that in the same year Baldwin's Tory-dominated national government, so humdrum and staid in retrospect, won another huge majority over Clement Attlee's Labour party. The King's Speech: How George VI's simple domesticity made him the king his country needed in time of war 2011-01-02T00:05:01Z Central to these was the interminable struggle, the unresolved conflict between the two founders of New Labour, Blair and Gordon Brown. Diaries, Volume 3 by Alastair Campbell ? review 2011-07-07T09:55:00Z By coincidence, the twentieth anniversary of New Labour’s landslide victory in 1997 also fell last week, causing its own ripple of reflections about how the U.K. has changed and what might have been. The Return of Tony Blair 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z There's little clientelism here – Rogers has built nothing in Labour's one-party city-states such as Manchester or Glasgow. Richard Rogers at 80: principles and power 2013-07-20T07:00:20Z At the recent Labour conference, I attended a fringe meeting about co-ops and the opportunities to protect services in the face of the cuts. Letters: Co-ops, cuts and the coalition 2010-10-03T23:04:00Z I ask him about his taffy pulls with Glenda Jackson, which evoked Question Time with the former Labour MP firebrand. Director Joe Mantello, Broadway’s Invisible Wizard 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z In the Commons today William Hague, the foreign secretary, was forced to defend the government's decision to cut the World Service's budget after being condemned by Labour MPs. BBC World Service forecast to lose 30m listeners as cuts announced 2011-01-26T20:20:12Z Ben Miller - one half of TV double act Armstrong and Miller - plays Robert Houston, a Labour MP attempting to jump ship to the Tories on the eve of the 2009 general election. MPs duck out of The Duck House 2013-12-11T10:59:23Z After the scorn poured on the notion of "luvvies for the arts" in the runup to the 1997 election, Labour politicians fought shy of speaking up about the arts, or even looking particularly cultured. Harriet Harman: 'We get the arts' 2013-02-11T20:00:06Z “Well, I’m not in the Labour party yet!” Ken Loach: ‘If you’re not angry, what kind of person are you?’ 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z Anyway, this week saw our hero at the Moscow dojo to launch a fitness drive with the Russian president, who is openly demanding a return to the Stalinist "Ready For Labour and Defence" programme. Steven Seagal protects Vladimir Putin from small children – phew! 2013-03-14T19:15:00Z Under the headline “Britain Backs Labour,” the Times reported how “Tony Blair and the Labour Party swept to a victory of historic proportions in Britain’s national election on Thursday, ending 18 years of Conservative control.” ‘The Crown’: The History Behind Season 5 on Netflix 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z This was the stuff that set 80s Labour councillors' pulses racing – the high-end hi-tech of Rogers was not to their taste. High stakes 2013-02-12T07:00:01Z Labour stopped being Labour, so I became a pragmatic voter for the SNP. What's the future of the Union? 2011-08-27T23:05:40Z Although he has been a committed Labour party member and campaigner for state education for more than 30 years, he is still best known for his gags. Why the satirist John O'Farrell would make a great MP for Eastleigh 2013-02-13T12:55:01Z The filmmaker donated his time, energy and money to a string of organisations as diverse as Unicef, the Labour party and Chelsea Football Club. How Attenborough 'saved' British film 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z Like most people I feel a little jaded after the banking crisis, but I will vote Labour and hope for the best. General election 2010: the art of the political poster 2010-04-27T07:00:00Z In a response issued by the department for communities, Kris Hopkins, the local government minister, attacked Labour's local government record: "Under Labour, council tax bills more than doubled whilst local services like bin collections halved. " Councils in poorest areas suffering biggest budget cuts, Labour says 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z Blairites consider him a David to the Goliath of vested interests within and beyond Labour. A difficult truth 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z Historically I have voted Labour, but not since the Iraq war – I couldn't countenance that. General election 2010: the art of the political poster 2010-04-27T07:00:00Z It was an achievement of the Labour government to deliver free entry to national collections. We need to start charging for museums and galleries again 2011-03-06T00:12:32Z Hunt is lucky, unlike some of his colleagues, in inheriting a buoyant Labour legacy. Memo to Jeremy Hunt: Hands off the arts budget 2010-05-13T15:06:00Z His 2005 play Playing With Fire looked at the politics of Tony Blair's New Labour and racial tensions in multicultural Britain. Play puts coalition drama on stage 2013-05-10T16:42:40Z Labour is the permanent party of local government in Wigan metropolitan borough, holding 24 out of 25 seats. Wigan Pier 2011-02-20T00:04:14Z Anyone who goes to bed without setting an alarm at all must surely be a committed Tory or Labour voter – they're probably a duke or a tramp. Alarm clock Britain, Mr Clegg? It's about time you woke up to reality 2011-01-16T00:05:47Z The Lib Dems are a party to the left of Labour and they are doing the Tories' bidding – they are fig leaves, being used to justify Tory policy. Nick Clegg as a cartoon figure - it's fun but does it really hurt? 2010-07-17T23:05:00Z Lord Adonis, the Labour peer and former transport secretary bemoaned the festival's "liberal intolerance" in tweets. David Goodhart's book on immigration earns him snub from Hay festival 2013-05-27T18:10:44Z I stopped voting Labour after the Iraq war, and started voting Green. General election 2010: the art of the political poster 2010-04-27T07:00:00Z Throughout the New Labour years, I was maddened by the frequent renaming of government departments. David Mitchell: I'm glad the asbo is going, but most rebranding is just a distraction 2011-02-13T00:05:37Z In his speech at the 2012 Labour conference, boldly claimed Benjamin Disraeli, who invented the modern Conservative party back in the Victorian age, as the inspiration of today's Labour party. One nation in one man: the portrait of Benjamin Disraeli 2012-10-03T14:52:44Z The 9th and 10th Doctors were not typically English, but they belonged to the illusionary boomtime of New Labour. Letters: A betweeded Doctor 2010-03-23T00:05:00Z Labour is turning to the internet, in part because it cannot match the resources of the Conservative party. David Cameron depicted as Gene Hunt in Labour poster 2010-04-02T20:16:00Z David invoked the spirit of Keir Hardie, the first Labour leader, and suggested his own rebirth as a politician, "a different kind to the one I was three months ago!" David and Ed Miliband on sibling rivalry 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z Kerry McCarthy, the Labour MP for Bristol East, tabled a parliamentary question to the government on what the response would be to the findings. MRSA in pork: farming leaders join calls for clampdown on illegal antibiotics use 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z Kinnock, the former Labour leader, said that he felt “rather forlorn” when he considered the chances of the marbles being returned. As Europe Returns Artifacts, Britain Stays Silent 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z But this one — penned by Labour councillor Robert Khan and improviser Tom Salinsky — has less to say about the Conservatives than the Liberal Democrats, which may be part of the problem. Coalition – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-16T14:18:56Z Musicians including Paul Weller and Billy Bragg formed the Red Wedge movement to campaign against Thatcher and for the Labour Party in the 1987 election. Thatcher had profound effect on popular culture 2013-04-08T16:16:08Z In Downing Street, flanked by his cabinet, Gordon Brown promised that Labour would safeguard the economic recovery. Guardian Daily podcast: Parties begin hard-fought campaign, and Obama unveils nuclear strategy 2010-04-06T23:01:00Z The factions, the vendettas, the Machiavellian jockeying for pathetic scraps of power as a dying Labour government wastes its last days in office. Out of The Thick of It: has the humour left British politics? 2011-02-18T17:08:42Z They will be concerned that localism may lead to a proliferation of local taxes and public spending, especially if Labour continues to make gains in local elections. Coalition agreement - the full deal at a glance 2010-05-20T14:13:00Z Set in 1924, the programme reflects the election of the UK's first ever Labour government - causing consternation for the Crawleys, who assume that a socialist ruling party will start to dismantle their estate. Less misery for new Downton Abbey 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z He gives a brilliant speech to the Labour party conference. Digested read: Behind the Black Door by Sarah Brown 2011-03-14T21:00:01Z Trees are now political, not just the ones falling in the Amazon, and burning in Australia, but also in the UK: Labour pledged to plant 2 billion in its last manifesto. 'I'm delighted to find them big now': a pilgrimage to the trees my father planted 2020-06-06T04:00:00Z For the first time Labour critics are uttering a thought they assumed would never enter their minds. Why Ed Miliband is experiencing his West Wing moment 2011-07-12T22:38:00Z The Labour candidates were also present to answer questions. Family life: Mrs Thatcher's chair, Sister Suffragette and Dad's Mish Mush 2013-07-20T06:30:06Z Two years later, in 1964, just weeks before Harold Wilson came to power, I went to public school, and even as a 13-year-old was aware of the anxiety about what Labour might do. Advice for a new government 2010-05-07T23:07:00Z There are also 15 Labour ex-MPs standing again, having already been ousted once by the electorate – one in five of those fighting the most marginal seats. Half of Labour candidates in marginal seats are Westminster insiders 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z Labour's home secretary, Tony Blair, was put up to attack it, and, in an uncharacteristically irritable speech, called the third way "vacuous". What if John Smith had lived? 2011-04-07T20:00:15Z Insight too is expected into her decision to speak at the 2008 Labour Conference, introducing Gordon Brown as "my husband, the leader of your party, your prime minister". Sarah Brown to pen 'intimate' memoirs 2010-06-13T23:05:00Z Cox is a Labour supporter who has campaigned for Scottish independence. Succession’s Brian Cox: ‘I was touched up by Princess Margaret’ 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z And his politics are passionate; earlier this year, Mr. Izzard, who is a Social Democrat, voraciously campaigned for the Labour Party across England, Scotland and Wales. | Eddie Izzard: Visiting Ellis Island With Eddie Izzard 2010-07-16T21:30:00Z He primarily works in the medium of prints, which make up the majority of pieces in “Our Labour.” A DNA Test Led Yashua Klos to New Connections and New Art 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z On Thursday this week, Newcastle-upon-Tyne's City Pool and Turkish baths will close their doors, the first victims along with five play centres of budget cuts approved by the Labour city council three weeks ago. Swimmers plan a day of mourning as Newcastle cuts pool and Turkish baths 2013-03-25T17:05:33Z With regulatory controls relaxed or scrapped the financial institutions whose support Labour had wooed became predatory, raking in vast profits from strategies whose risks they did not understand. Ralph Miliband and sons 2010-09-06T07:00:00Z Labour unions are increasingly raising concerns about excessive work, too, especially its impact on relationships and physical and mental health. Do you work more than 39 hours a week? Your job could be killing you 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z “It is hard for me to overstate to you how poisonous things have become in England,” he continued, mentioning Labour Party MP Jo Cox, who was murdered by a British Nationalist last week. You think things are crazy in America? Watch John Oliver explain how Brexit “would be absolutely crazy” 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z But Boyle's approach can be justified by the fact that the 2012 Olympic bid was initiated and successfully executed by Labour governments at both national and London level. Why the Olympic opening ceremony was a triumph of agitprop theatre 2012-07-31T14:17:05Z But instead Rothschild says "a lot of people are wondering why you aren't the leader of the Labour party." TV review: Storyville: Mandelson ? the Real PM? 2010-11-23T22:15:00Z And in 2013, a work entitled “Slave Labour” vanished from the wall of a London discount store and wound up on auction in Miami, before it was withdrawn and returned to Britain. Banksy Mural Is Stolen From Bataclan, Site of Paris Attacks 2019-01-27T05:00:00Z Judging by this volume, most of New Labour's brightest stars have failed to learn that lesson. Philip Gould: An Unfinished Life, edited by Dennis Kavanagh - review 2012-09-26T07:30:04Z The dinner’s guest list was dominated by property industry tycoons, bankers, celebrities and politicians, including Zahawi and the Labour peer Jonathan Mendelsohn. Presidents Club to close down after claims of harassment at ‘hostess’ gala 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z During the Labour government's now defunct effort to establish independently financed news consortiums around the UK, Below the Radar talked to possible partners including the Belfast Telegraph and local radio stations. The Detail to provide local news boost for Northern Ireland 2010-10-07T14:02:00Z "But you are still Labour in your heart?" Cheryl Cole: 'I hate this year' 2010-10-22T23:04:00Z He supported abolition of clause IV not because of strong views about the merits of private against public ownership, but because he thought it would help Labour get elected. Last Man Standing by Jack Straw - review 2012-10-02T11:29:00Z I thought supporting Labour and being leftwing is an outlook on life. The Saturday interview: Bill Bailey ? 'It's genius, evil genius' 2010-12-18T00:16:00Z However, in 2013 he fell out with Labour and declared himself in favour of a new party of the left. Obituary: Roger Lloyd-Pack 2014-01-16T12:27:05Z Labour cabinets, he thought, were "not nearly as open" as Tory cabinets to press influence, because they wrote off nearly all newspapers as capitalist. Events, Dear Boy, Events edited by Ruth Winstone - review 2012-12-26T07:00:04Z Labour dismissed the charge, and the drawings are now part of the official collection, where they will be joined by Roberts's work. Election artist focuses on bigger picture 2010-03-26T18:45:00Z If Labour believed "the arts" could go hang themselves because it wanted all the money for better hospitals? Don't vote for "arts" policy in the 2010 general election 2010-04-06T12:17:00Z When I was much younger, I saw two of Mike Leigh's films for television, Nuts in May and Hard Labour, and they changed the way I thought about drama. My TV hero: Phil Davis on Mike Leigh 2011-07-11T20:00:01Z But the immediate cause is the fading of Labour in the southern county constituencies of England. Election memories 2010-04-09T23:07:00Z Yet as an Oxford student in the 1930s, he was a disciple of the Labour-voting master of Balliol, "Sandy" Lindsay, and of the Labour churchman William Temple, later Archbishop of Canterbury. Edward Heath: The Edward Heath: The Authorised Biography by Philip Ziegler 2010-06-18T23:15:00Z Four years ago, on the back of promising to restore the baths, the Lib Dems ousted Labour from office in Camden for the first time in years. Making a splash: newly restored Kentish Town baths reopen 2010-07-26T17:50:00Z Here his targets are the privatisation of intelligence-gathering, the hypocrisy of New Labour and, as ever, the ethical poverty of realpolitik as he sets out the staging of a failed counterterror operation in Gibraltar. Holiday reading: The best books to pack this summer 2013-06-29T07:00:51Z The fifth movie by this Argentine filmmaker is a clever but weightless divertissement, with a highbrow gloss built around the preparation of a radio production of “Love’s Labour’s Lost,” that is a pastiche of Shakespeare. At New York Film Festival, History and Detectives 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z Rather, he was still on air five hours later, a Raging Boul charging through the fragile china Labour cabinet. | Hadley Freeman 2010-05-12T08:00:00Z He was proved right: the Conservatives outlived their Victorian Liberal rivals to face Labour as they still do. One nation in one man: the portrait of Benjamin Disraeli 2012-10-03T14:52:44Z One of the boys was said to be scared that the Labour MP would have him killed if he spoke out. Police investigating claims of child sex abuse against a senior Labour MP 2015-07-19T04:00:00Z Parliamentarians were largely respectful, though some Labour MPs used the occasion to attack her legacy. Margaret Thatcher death celebrations were puerile, says Nick Clegg 2013-04-11T09:48:13Z The people who built the Labour movement were avid readers of Ruskin. Labour championing Banksy? It's a betrayal of party values 2013-02-27T15:26:06Z The film is right to say that many Labour 1945 voters expressed the view of "never again": they did not want a return to the kind of society that allowed mass unemployment to exist. Ken Loach's Spirit of '45 is a fantasy 2013-03-08T07:00:32Z My response is to say that it was not only the invasion itself that left me reluctant to vote Labour. Hare v Kinnock 2010-04-12T19:00:00Z Labour said the campaign lacked any detail or substance. Alex Salmond predicts million-strong movement for Scottish independence 2012-05-25T16:44:00Z I'm a Labour person but it was really heartbreaking for David Cameron and his wife when they lost their son. Alan Davies interview: 'I'm like a fine wine. I'm maturing' 2013-01-20T18:57:01Z Whatever the reason, it cannot be denied that the New York brick-and-mortar experience of Labour and Wait is not quite so transporting as one imagined when virtually window-shopping. The Robust Preciousness of Labour and Wait 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z In 2004, the Labour MP Stephen Pound put down an early day motion asking the house to recognise the 10th anniversary of Hicks's death, describing him as an "unflinching and painfully honest political philosopher". The adulation of Bill Hicks 2010-05-16T22:30:00Z Could a documentary on the Labour leader be his next project? Oliver Stone on Vladimir Putin: ‘The Russian people have never been better off’ 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z A new political era was dawning, with New Labour on the verge of sweeping away 18 years of Conservative government. TV drama revisits 'optimism' of 1996 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z This man was the brother of our neighbour and a Labour peer. Elvis Costello 2010-10-16T23:04:00Z Labour politicians pressed the arts to prove their social worth. Let's cut the arts budget 2010-07-25T18:00:00Z As the achievements of the Labour movement are thrown away by an amnesiac age, we have a lot to learn from their ideals. Did the aesthetic rebels get Ruskin wrong? 2011-03-29T16:14:06Z One of New Labour's biggest buzzwords – "personalisation" – comes in for criticism. State schools: are they failing our children? 2011-02-27T00:05:50Z In part this was accepted as the price for power, but it also reflected New Labour's Fukuyama-like faith that market capitalism was the final stage of economic development; the future lay with the self-regulating market. Ralph Miliband and sons 2010-09-06T07:00:00Z The party wanted to fob off its leftish activists by telling them that Labour's behaviour had made a deal impossible, and to use sham talks to extract more concessions from the Conservatives. 5 Days in May: The Coalition and Beyond by Andrew Adonis – review 2013-05-13T07:00:03Z What was it like living under New Labour? Mere fact, mere fiction 2010-04-16T23:10:00Z They capture the brittle combination of arrogance and neuroticism during this period when New Labour swaggered towards power by day and sweated that it might yet lose by night. The Alastair Campbell Diaries Volume One: Prelude to Power 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z Looking back on the movement and its achievements in an interview, Kernaghan sounds defeated, even as he reels off the list of horrific factories exposed by his Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights. Sweatshops still make your clothes 2013-03-21T15:36:00Z New Labour broke my heart, made me feel as though I hated my country, made me feel things in my country were so bad I would be better off dead. Looking back on New Labour: Peter Akinti 2010-04-03T23:07:00Z There is a real danger we might undo the work of the last few years' in the creative industries, the film producers and Labour peer says. Arts spending will be vital for economic revival, says Lord Puttnam 2011-04-09T23:06:52Z It's true," Kinnock says, "that one of the reasons Tony and Gordon became so disciplined was because they wanted to inoculate the Labour Party against the forms of attack which cost us the '92 election. Hare v Kinnock 2010-04-12T19:00:00Z But the Labour party had a vision for postwar Britain, and education, art and culture for everyone were at the heart of that vision. We must protect and reinvent our local libraries 2012-11-23T08:28:01Z It celebrates 1945, a pivotal year, and its brief aftermath, during which socialism was proudly endorsed and openly promoted by a Labour leader, Clement Attlee. The Spirit of '45: where did it go? 2013-03-02T16:00:02Z Equally, it's hard to imagine Brown, in civilian life, at an Eddie Izzard gig; but because the comedian has stayed Labour while more fickle showbiz types have switched, they became pals on parade. Politicians' pop-culture love-in 2010-04-20T20:30:00Z The carpet bombing of German cities during World War II; the “naughty document” that handed over Romania and Bulgaria to Stalin; comparing the Labour Party to the Gestapo — the list of Churchillian controversies goes on. Is This the Best One-Volume Biography of Churchill Yet Written? 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z He lost in an unexpected landslide for Clement Attlee’s Labour party: For the final five days, Attlee replaced him at the negotiating table. Looking Back on 16 Days That Shaped History 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z He joined the Socialist Labour Party of Detroit, the Knights of Labour, was present at the Haymarket Riots in Chicago and, at the age of 87, died during the harsh winter of 1897. Not in York's guidebooks - yet. Take a walk through radical York 2013-01-16T07:01:00Z For all the positives in education and social services achieved from 1997, Labour isn't going to successfully oppose the patent intent of this government to dismantle the welfare state. Letters: How to fight back against austerity cuts 2010-12-21T00:05:02Z Two-thirds of them went to the UK, attracted by the postwar reconstruction boom and the welfare state put in place by Clement Attlee's Labour government. Me and Mine: A Warm-hearted Memoir of a London Irish Family by Anna May Mangan ? review 2011-08-05T21:55:02Z This will be a key Labour message in the run-up to next year's election. Poverty hits twice as many British households as 30 years ago 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z He went on to murder 69 more, mostly teenagers, at a retreat for the youth wing of the Norwegian Labour Party on the island of Utoya, outside Oslo. Picasso Murals Caught Up in Terrorist Attack’s Bitter Legacy 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z However, Labour was close enough to being able to lead a viable government for the Lib Dems to use that possibility to pressurise Conservative negotiators into concessions. 5 Days in May by David Adonis – review 2013-06-14T08:01:00Z Meanwhile, Labour went from running the country to a diminished and divided opposition party under its current left-wing leader, Jeremy Corbyn. The Return of Tony Blair 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z She served as a Labour representative for a district of north London for 23 years, starting in the early 1990s. Glenda Jackson to Return to Broadway in Albee’s ‘Three Tall Women’ 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z The current regulations are the product of Tony Blair’s Labour Party government. British xenophobia on the rise 2013-01-03T21:17:00Z The Labour MP Jess Phillips, the shadow minister for domestic violence, also complained at the time about the “character assassination” that Amber Heard suffered in the media. Heard lost public sympathy for standing up against Depp assaults, says QC 2020-11-03T05:00:00Z It is one of the programmes introduced by Labour of which I am most proud. Ed Miliband attacks government over scrapping of Booktrust funding 2010-12-23T12:49:27Z Many Labour politicians have claimed one reason for this is because women are disproportionately hit by spending cuts. Maria Miller: the new culture secretary facing a steep learning curve 2012-10-05T17:46:12Z Slave Labour, which was removed in February, was sold by Sincura on behalf of the Poundland building's owners in a controversial process. Banksy graffiti disappears from wall in Tottenham 2013-07-26T13:35:57Z The respected novelist, broadcaster and Labour peer fronts the South Bank Show and other programming on Sky's digital channel. BBC2 gets radical with Melvyn Bragg documentary 2013-06-12T12:54:24Z Labour Party deputy leader Harriet Harman also said Morgan had questions to answer over the extent of phone hacking within Britain's media industry. Lawmakers: Piers Morgan should discuss hacking 2011-08-04T16:11:08Z This transformed the Labour party from being a radical alternative to the Conservatives into a quasi-Thatcherite sect that made three electoral victories possible, with the backing of Rupert Murdoch and other proprietors. Tony Benn: 'What is really significant about Tony Blair was that he set up a new political party, New Labour' 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z Alyokhina, aged 24, is serving her sentence in the Ural Mountains at Corrective Labour Colony No. 28, which she recently described in Russian magazine The New Times as a "dead world". Conductor backs Putin over protest 2012-12-19T13:32:29Z I can't vote for New Labour, and of course the question of voting Conservative doesn't arise. A life in writing: Tariq Ali 2010-05-07T23:18:00Z But critics continued to ask why the guest list had room for despots while former British Prime Ministers Gordon Brown and Tony Blair, both from the Labour Party, were left out. Britain revokes wedding invite for Syria envoy 2011-04-28T12:27:19Z New Labour had an opportunity to reaffirm those postwar values, but instead they just uprooted and diluted them; it was just a kind of rebranded Thatcherism. Talkin' 'bout my generation 2010-08-21T23:06:00Z His appeal to the Labour party members tends to involve him brandishing his party card and affirming his loyalty to its motto: Putting power, wealth and opportunity into the hands of the many. David and Ed Miliband on sibling rivalry 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z "Labour needed to change its economic and political-reform agenda and own up to its massive, strategic errors on foreign policy." Ed: The Milibands and the Making of a Labour Leader by Mehdi Hasan and James Macintyre - review 2011-07-15T21:55:11Z For the past 80 years, Labour and Tory prime ministers alike have been almost as unwilling as Churchill to forsake their vision of Britain as a global power. Britain and the U.S.: A Forced and Unequal Marriage 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z All of them were given the go-ahead by Labour councils, in the case of London, by the seemingly radical Livingstone mayoralty. High stakes 2013-02-12T07:00:01Z The Labour frontbencher Cat Smith, who was with Corbyn, tweeted that at first she just thought there was “some loud bloke who stunk of booze yelling at us”. Does Boris Johnson’s government have a women problem? 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z "A lot of Labour people irritated by being attacked from the left by the Liberal Democrats for the past 13 years are enjoying being Trots for a bit," Farron says. Will anyone vote for AV in the electoral reform referendum? 2011-04-08T23:09:12Z Much of “Love’s Labour’s Lost” is just plain silly. Theater Review: ‘Love’s Labour’s Lost,’ at Hudson Valley Shakespeare Fest 2012-07-31T22:20:55Z The main focus of the play is the contest of wills and wits between the Labour whipping team and their Tory opposite numbers. This House recalls the years when Britain really was a nation in crisis 2012-10-13T23:06:33Z And, last year, a Labour figure denounced Gordon Brown to me as an unstable lunatic shortly before, when the red light came on, commending him as a great statesman with the best yet to come. TV matters: Andy Gray 2011-01-27T07:59:01Z When he says the world is a place of contradictions, Labour's longest-serving prime minister is really talking about himself. Tony Blair's A Journey: Andrew Rawnsley's review 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z Labour was torture, lasting three days, and ended only after Elder was induced. ‘It's the breaking of a taboo’: the parents who regret having children 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z In 1997, one of his last performances with D:Ream was at Labour's election night party at the Royal Festival Hall. Brian Cox: Physics is better than rock'n'roll 2011-03-24T08:01:00Z It celebrates the Labour landslide at the 1945 general election and the resolve never to return again to the miserable conditions that the working class endured in the 1930s. The Spirit of '45 – review 2013-03-17T00:05:46Z At the event, arranged by Labour politician Oona King, he called for a “change of mindset” among broadcasters. Idris Elba: ‘If I'm going to watch TV it wouldn't be a period drama, put it that way' 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z Labour is no time to be thinking of your appearance. Neat pubic hair? Pregnant women should never be pressured to get a brazilian 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z That she was describing an incident outside work did not stop his employer acting, nor Labour later suspending his party membership. How Harvey Weinstein’s accusers gave women worldwide a voice 2017-10-21T04:00:00Z One Labour MP said the newly revealed correspondence confirmed her doubts about the broadcaster's campaign for the programme. Big Fat Gypsy Weddings ad director demanded 'dirty kiss' in advert 2012-10-11T06:13:04Z Clearly, the Labour Party is not without some issues right now and I do get frustrated. 2010-01-09T11:23:00Z New Labour took my vote for granted, turned its back on me and sidestepped an important responsibility. Looking back on New Labour: Peter Akinti 2010-04-03T23:07:00Z Since it lost power in 2010, the Labour party has been in search of an answer to the de-industrialisation, growing wage inequality and economic insecurity that proved fertile territory for the Brexit campaign. Is Finland’s basic universal income a solution to automation, fewer jobs and lower wages? 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z When David Cameron told the Labour MP Angela Eagle to “Calm down, dear” in the Commons, the accusations of sexism lasted for days. Does Boris Johnson’s government have a women problem? 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z The programme of the Third, with movement titles like Life and Labour or Intrigues and Suffering, may seem as prescriptive as any socialist-realist work by Shostakovich, but Villa-Lobos's response is anything but prescribed. Villa-Lobos: Symphonies No 3 and 4 – review 2013-02-28T21:30:01Z A jobless, car-bound subtopia In terms of architecture and planning, the big problem with New Labour has been its almost paranoid need to centralise power and control events. What have Labour done for architecture? 2010-04-21T20:30:00Z A useful complement to this analysis is the political history of Britain’s engagement with the EU by Denis MacShane, a former Labour MP. The Brexit dilemma 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z This is most glaring in a short, dismissive article on Jeremy Corbyn, published two years before the Labour leader pulled off his near upset of Theresa May in last year’s snap election. In His New Collection, ‘The Rub of Time,’ Martin Amis Takes On Everyone From Travolta to Trump 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z One of them, a woman, held a banner mocking Gergiev's recent "Hero of Labour" award received from Putin on Wednesday, suggesting the conductor should either pull down the building or hand back the medal. Russia's new Mariinsky theatre woos the doubters 2013-05-02T20:36:35Z Early in the Blair years, for example, a manuscript circulated among British agents and publishers that purported to come from a New Labour insider, fictionalising a smiley, reforming PM and his pushy career-woman wife. The story of O: A Presidential Novel 2011-01-21T12:15:40Z Most of these were the kind of buildings that Labour politicians would once have campaigned against. High stakes 2013-02-12T07:00:01Z Follett, the bestselling novelist and New Labour donor, entered similar territory last year when he raised the curtain on an award for good writing, though it was accompanied by some laughter from the wings. Anne Fine scores a perfect pen in Follett's book 2010-06-22T16:12:00Z Instead, they tick as many boxes as possible without illuminating them: Tory public-school clannishness, Labour dithering and the febrile rumour-mongering of the Westminster village. Stiffed! 2010-04-18T20:30:00Z “Labour is the only party that cares about people like us,” says my barber. A month of meaningful conversation: my quest to befriend a new person every day 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z Now after the scandal of the millionaire donors, Labour is back where it started, reliant on the unions and knee-deep in sleaze as well. Election memories 2010-04-09T23:07:00Z Labour is in no mood to talk about such fripperies as architecture, development or planning. What have Labour done for architecture? 2010-04-21T20:30:00Z Isaac Herzog, the leader of Israel’s Labour party, described the legislation as a “dark mark on Israel’s face”. Haneen Zoabi: 'Israel is the only country not shocked by or afraid of Trump' 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z We learn that Alastair Campbell, for all his declarations of loyalty to the Labour clan, only agreed to help at the recent election grudgingly because he thought it was a "lost cause". The Third Man by Peter Mandelson 2010-07-17T23:05:00Z Cutting administration costs will be a mantra across all government departments: the Arts Council is currently closest to the target at 6.5%, after a wave of painful cuts under Labour. Coalition agreement - the full deal at a glance 2010-05-20T14:13:00Z Their treatment led to protests, bitter arguments within the Labour party and the threat of a general strike. Actor battles to overturn jail term 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z My promise to ensure energy customers get the lowest tariff is being delivered, despite Labour saying it couldn’t be done. Grayling's rehabilitation speech and Clegg taking DPMQs: Politics live blog 2012-11-20T16:11:00Z Even maximal devolution could trigger a redistribution of seats at Westminster that would leave Labour beached on the margins of politics. Ed: The Milibands and the Making of a Labour Leader by Mehdi Hasan and James Macintyre - review 2011-07-15T21:55:11Z There are stage envoys as far back as the Greeks, and negotiations inform several Shakespeare plays, from “Henry V” to that statecraft classic, “Love’s Labour’s Lost.” From ‘Camp David’ to ‘Oslo,’ Forging Drama from Diplomacy 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z Similarly, the latest noises from inside Labour are depressing for those convinced a new look at drugs is required; the party is apparently intent on avoiding the issue. The war on drugs killed my daughter 2014-06-21T04:00:00Z Despite 13 years of a Labour government and numerous reports and inquiries, the thorny issue of how to pay for social care funding and tackle the burgeoning numbers with dementia has still not been addressed. Coalition agreement - the full deal at a glance 2010-05-20T14:13:00Z Biron in “Love’s Labour’s Lost”: Greater than great, great, great, great Pompey! Style Invitational Week 1380: Both sides now 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z In 2002, he was active in defeating the attempted coup by a group of rightwing actors who were perversely convinced that Equity had been politicised by Labour members, to the disadvantage of ordinary performers. John Burgess obituary 2011-01-02T18:22:59Z I had always voted Labour, but I never had any intention of joining the party until it became viable that Corbyn might become the leader. 'Hope has started to grow': Maxine Peake on Corbyn, people power and Peterloo’s radical legacy 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z The new Labour leader, Harold Wilson, turned out to be an excellent leader of the opposition, challenging, mocking and puncturing Tory pretensions on every front. 1963: from the Stones to Dr Strangelove, a year of social and cultural upheaval 2013-05-07T05:00:01Z The Rolling Stones pitched up in the south of France in the spring of 1971 as reluctant tax exiles fleeing the Labour government's punitive 93% tax on high earners. Exile on Main St 2010-04-24T23:05:00Z While he says the Labour party's work "is essentially done", he does see a role for the Greens. A life in writing: Les Murray 2010-11-22T00:05:00Z Swept to power in 1997 on a wave of popular enthusiasm, Blair left office a decade later condemned by many over Iraq and viewed as a liability by much of his own Labour Party. Tony Blair: 'I cried for Iraq war victims' 2010-09-01T18:06:00Z He put it in a bottom drawer when he took a job with a non-partisan thinktank, and left it there until he returned to working full-time for Labour. 5 Days in May: The Coalition and Beyond by Andrew Adonis – review 2013-05-13T07:00:03Z I thought Nye might like to know there were some authentic Labour supporters in the army. Philip French: my life as a stammerer 2010-12-26T00:05:05Z He assumes the leadership of one of the best-known Shakespeare companies in the country, and the first production he directs is not “Othello” or “Richard II” or even “Love’s Labour’s Lost.” Review | ‘Timon of Athens’ is tricky Shakespeare. A fearless director gets it right. 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z As a Liberal in the British electoral system, Thorpe only ever had a slim hope of Parliamentary power beyond that of being a wedge between the two dominant parties, the Conservatives and Labour. The Very English Politics of “A Very English Scandal” 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z It was intended for a spring 1970 release, which would have coincided with the general election when the Conservative leader Edward Heath upset the Labour Party prime minister, Harold Wilson. From All-Star Flop to Astute Satire in Just 50 Years 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z Labour unrest was so common by the end of Mr Mubarak’s reign that it is difficult to mark a turning-point. Reading Piketty on the Nile 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z This was in part because he felt that David was too young, but also because he wasn't convinced he was New Labour enough. 'Tony Blair called back to see if I had blown myself up' 2010-10-09T23:06:00Z After Blair did the same trick with the Labour party that Thatcher had turned with the Tories, I never voted Labour again. What's the future of the Union? 2011-08-27T23:05:40Z In its third series, when it was mocking the last days of New Labour, The Thick of It satirised a similar kind of unthinking art choice. Why modern art is not a class issue 2013-01-15T15:11:01Z I was involved in the Labour club, but the Humanists seemed much more daring to me. A life in writing: Tariq Ali 2010-05-07T23:18:00Z He and his wife, Rima Horton, met when they were still teenagers; she became an economics lecturer as well as a Labour party councillor. Alan Rickman, giant of British screen and stage, dies at 69 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z “The Rest is Politics,” fronted by the former Labour communications director Alastair Campbell and the former Conservative lawmaker Rory Stewart, regularly sits at the top of British podcast charts. Can a Podcast Save the U.K.? Crooked Media Takes on British Politics 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z It was all promised in A New London, except for the fact that in 1992, Rogers probably thought he would be designing council housing under a Labour government. High stakes 2013-02-12T07:00:01Z Politicians of all parties, except Labour, are aware of the problem. What have Labour done for architecture? 2010-04-21T20:30:00Z The Labour movement in history is as much about getting people reading and learning as it is about the NHS. Labour championing Banksy? It's a betrayal of party values 2013-02-27T15:26:06Z The Labour MP Tom Watson said the panel inquiry must be empowered to look at any papers inside government on how claims were handled. Theresa May to announce wide-ranging child abuse inquiry 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z Labour's shadow culture secretary Harriet Harman appeared to back the No 10 consultation, saying in a statement that protecting children online was a real problem and a concern for millions of parents. Ministers step back from online pornography legislation 2012-12-14T22:53:01Z If people who would otherwise be tempted to vote Labour look at my voting record I have actually been more true to perhaps what they thought Labour stood for than many Labour MPs themselves. Caroline Lucas: 'Politics is about everything we do' 2013-07-27T23:05:02Z Lansbury's father, son of a distinguished Labour Party leader and a politician himself, died when she was 9. Angela Lansbury's spirit and star power burn as bright as ever 2014-12-06T05:00:00Z Listening to this, I start arguing: the unions always go quiet before an election, so as not to embarrass the party; Unite have got a 100-year history with Labour; you’re turning puddles into oceans. Mark Serwotka: ‘I read on Twitter eight weeks ago that I was dead’ 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z The soap operatic relationships at the core of New Labour are traced with reasonable accuracy. The Third Man by Peter Mandelson 2010-07-17T23:05:00Z Labour legislator Ann Begg, the first full-time wheelchair user elected to Parliament, was made a dame for services to disabled people and equal opportunities. Annie Lennox honored by queen for charity work 2010-12-31T00:03:19Z Labour MP Pat Glass, whose North West Durham constituency embraces Consett and its population of 32,000, also wants to accentuate the positives in the town, despite four years of cuts. What would you cut? Durham council asks residents to find £100m savings 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z Then no one would be confused about whether Labour councils were to blame for the cuts, nor would we be tempted to blame scroungers, or even foreigners. Letters: Beecham's bitter pill for opponents of arts cuts 2012-12-21T20:59:02Z Why do British politicians struggle to talk about the arts, particularly under New Labour? Why politicians fight shy of campaigning on the arts 2010-04-28T05:00:00Z New Labour may have earned its fall, but Malcolm Tucker deserved to go on forever. Out of The Thick of It: has the humour left British politics? 2011-02-18T17:08:42Z The O2 works because it brings low culture and high culture effortlessly together – something New Labour never did, but Robert Redford always does. The O2 ? do you love it or hate it? 2011-03-16T20:00:01Z But Labour said after the Commons exchanges that Freud should be sacked. Lord Freud offers ‘unreserved apology’ for comment about disabled people 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z New Labour began this process tremulously in its last year in office; the coalition government is following through. 20 predictions for the next 25 years 2011-01-02T00:05:22Z Labour party officials hope it will remind young voters of the Tory record in the 1980s when youth unemployment hit record heights. David Cameron depicted as Gene Hunt in Labour poster 2010-04-02T20:16:00Z The two major political parties, Labour and Conservative, both profoundly divided over Brexit, are now in free fall: the Prime Minister is resigning and the Labour Party leader is unlikely to survive a no-confidence vote. On Brexit, the 2016 Euro Championship, and Trump 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z She founded the Fabian Society, precursor of the Labour party, and still had time to write 60 novels, among them the most purely funny pages in the language. The parent trap: art after children 2010-08-01T20:30:00Z Photograph: Ray Tang/Rex Features • Labour has said that customers won't benefit from the government's plan to force energy companies to put people on their lowest tariffs. Grayling's rehabilitation speech and Clegg taking DPMQs: Politics live blog 2012-11-20T16:11:00Z This weekend MPs, including the Labour politician Paul Flynn, called on the company to prevent searches listing sites for groups such as the Islamist organisation Al Shabaab. Google defends listing extremist websites in its search results 2013-05-25T15:29:06Z The happy conjunction of neo-liberal economics with social democracy on which New Labour was founded is now history. Ralph Miliband and sons 2010-09-06T07:00:00Z The Labour party held a sort of revival meeting today in which former non-members confessed their sins and declared that they were saved. Labour watches the Eddie and Ed show 2010-09-29T18:17:00Z Nothing was done about the anarchic system by which any constituency Labour party or trade union could get its pet motion on to the annual conference agenda. What if John Smith had lived? 2011-04-07T20:00:15Z By the 1960s he was an informal adviser to Labour Party leader Harold Wilson. 'High Financier': Niall Ferguson on the banker who helped make London a capital of finance 2010-06-23T23:38:00Z Lewis will also make clear that Labour is best placed to create the conditions for an essential ingredient of success: giving chances to talented people from all backgrounds. Labour must win 'mainstream majority' by promoting social mobility 2011-04-06T08:00:03Z As British Labour Party leader contender Liz Kendall reportedly put it this weekend, “F__k off.” British politician shuts down sexist questions about her weight with the best answer ever 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z The party had nothing to fall back on when the economic storm broke and the Labour things stopped being good. Philip Gould: An Unfinished Life, edited by Dennis Kavanagh - review 2012-09-26T07:30:04Z |
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