iPhone app iPad app Android phone app Android tablet app More

James Callaghan

Thatcher: The Most Divisive British Leader of All Time

Mark Hillary | Posted 10.04.2013 | UK Politics
Read More: Baroness-Thatcher, Ronald Reagan, Tony Blair, James Callaghan, Margaret Thatcher, Winter of Discontent, John Major, Banking Crisis, Elvis Costello, Bobby Sands, Soviet Union, Ira, UK Conservative Party, UK Economy, UK Politics News
Mark Hillary

Thatcher still manages to divide opinion in a way that no other British leader has achieved. Even Tony Blair's false wars don't create the same kind of hatred.

Read Whole Story

The Queen And Her 12 Prime Ministers

Huffington Post UK | Posted 01.06.2012 | UK
Read More: Winston Churchill, Gordon Brown, James Callaghan, Margaret Thatcher, Harold Wilson, Tony Blair, David Cameron, Diamond Jubilee, John Major, Edward-Heath, Anthony Eden, Sir-Alec-Douglas-Home, Harold Macmillan, The Queen, UK News

As Britain sails into the much anticipated Diamond Jubilee weekend, David Cameron has been praising her Majesty's "Great British Sense". Over her 6...

Read Whole Story

Iran's Nuclear Programme: The World Should Listen to the UN's Warning

Mark Seddon | Posted 11.01.2012 | UK Politics
Read More: James Callaghan, Iran Nuclear Weapons, IAEA Report, Iran, IAEA Iran, United Nations, Ban Ki-Moon, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, UK Politics News
Mark Seddon

Wise counsel such as this was largely ignored in the run up to the war in Iraq, and such were the consequences that few thought such blundering would ever occur again.

Read Whole Story

Using and Enjoying Misquotations

Elizabeth Knowles | Posted 14.12.2011 | UK
Read More: New York Journal, Sherlock Holmes, James Callaghan, Oxford, David Cameron, Misquotes, Misquotation, UK News
Elizabeth Knowles

Misquotations often tell us how we see things and people. Captain Kirk may never have ordered, 'Beam me up, Scotty', but the phrase encapsulates for a generation the leadership team of the Starship Enterprise returning from yet another mission.

Read Whole Story

The European Elephant in Ed's Room

Mark Seddon | Posted 26.11.2011 | UK Politics
Read More: Mark Seddon, Ed Miliband, Eurozone, European Debt Crisis, European Union, Labour Conference, James Callaghan, UK Politics, UK Diary, UK Politics News
Mark Seddon

Ed should, since the YouGov poll makes it absolutely clear that Labour voters - and many of the five million lost working class Labour voters are absolutely clear

Read Whole Story