The Great Moving Right Show was the title of Stuart Hall's celebrated essay on the rise of the radical New Right, published in January 1979 as Britain's post-war settlement began finally to collapse and Thatcherism emerged as a potent new political force. Hall's essay was remarkably prescient. It engaged at...
(0) Comments | Posted 20 October 2011 | (16:10)
What a difference a year can make. That applies as much to economic forecasting as anything. It is exactly one year since George Osborne stepped up to the dispatch box in the House of Commons to announce the Government's Comprehensive Spending Review. As we well know, the centrepiece of the...
(0) Comments | Posted 26 July 2011 | (17:24)
To British people watching the horrific events unfold over the weekend in Norway, the dignity, empathy and humanity with which the Norwegian people expressed their grief and loss was profoundly moving. Here was a nation unafraid to express its emotions of bewilderment and despair openly and candidly, and to talk...
(1) Comments | Posted 6 September 2012 | (11:27)