Media spin, 1966 vintage
During the 1966 general election campaign, Prime Minister Harold Wilson visited the Birmingham Rag Market for a public meeting… … Read the full post »
Harold Wilson
Read my posts featuring the Labour Party leader and Prime Minister (1964-70, 1974-76), Harold Wilson. Like Tony Blair, he was good at winning elections but often accused by opponents within the party of not supporting a true Labour approach.
Tories are hoping economic recovery will win it for them in 2015; why didn’t it in 1997?
In some ways 2015 is nothing like 1997. Exhibits A and B: Tony Blair and Ed Miliband. But in one important sense they are very similar. … Read the full post »
Will it be ‘the economy, stupid’ in 2015?
Quite how traumatic the events of Black Wednesday were to the Conservative Party’s reputation are easy to overlook nearly twenty-five years on, but until then the century had seen four full-scale financial crises rocking the country’s economy – and every one had taken place under a Labour government. … Read the full post »
Harold Wilson’s resignation statement
Harold Wilson resigns on the 16th March, after having served as Prime Minister 1964-70 and 1974-76 … Read the full post »
David Cameron: the Conservative Party’s answer to Harold Wilson
More and more, David Cameron reminds me of Harold Wilson. Both became leaders of their party when a sequence of election defeats forced change upon it. … Read the full post »
Dishonourable Insults by Greg Knight
Conservative MP Greg Knight has made a mini-cottage industry out of collections of political insults, wit and invective, of which the new Dishonourable Insults is the fifth. … Read the full post »
Party political broadcasts: The greatest hits
The BBC had been pressing for political broadcasts to be used during the 1950 election, but initially met hostility from politicians. The very first political broadcast, either PEB or PPB, was eventually seen on 15 October 1951. … Read the full post »
Michael White on the Damian McBride affair
The murky underworld of sleaze and gossip which permeates the backdoor politics – and most walks of life where power, money, or the lack of it, matter – existed before the internet was invented. … Read the full post »