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Clement Attlee

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Name: Clement Attlee

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Bad Reputation

The debate about what to do in Syria has been sidetracked by discussions of credibility and reputation. But both logic and evidence prove that reputations are mostly imaginary. Obama should not let fears that others might think him irresolute drive him ... [Published Foreign Affairs - May 16 2013]

Entities: Syria, Dean Acheson, United States, Clement Attlee

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Winston Churchill

The sad demise of a President's floating palace: How Truman's 'seagoing White House' is rusting away in a shipyard

When the USS Williamsburg was commandeered by Harry Truman to be the President's personal yacht, she became one of the world's most famous ships.Dignitaries such as Winston Churchill were invited to conferences on board, while the vessel sailed around ... [Published Mail Online UK - May 15 2013]

Entities: Harry S Truman, Yacht, White House, Winston Churchill, George Marshall

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 1 reports

The Myth of the Sainted Attlee

No, this is not my long-promised lecture of the above title. I am under-qualified to deliver it, in any case. Suffice it to say that those who idolise Clement Attlee as a way of criticising New Labour have got the wrong man.Someone who could deliver it ... [Published The Independent - May 14 2013]

Entities: Clement Attlee, Ken Loach, David Hayes, Gareth Stedman Jones, David Kynaston

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 1 reports

Marginals or marginalia?

I used to think that coalition was the way forward: any hue that wasn’t blue would do me just fine. I thought that British politics was a disastrous night out: a nation determined to go for a pub crawl forced into Starbucks by three determined coffee ... [Published Progress Labour's Progressives - May 14 2013]

Entities: Marginals, Coalition, Referendum, Clement Attlee

First reported May 09 2013 - Updated May 09 2013 - 1 reports

My first year: Peter Dowd looks back at Labour’s first year of power in Sefton

MAY 2012 saw Labour take control of Sefton for the first time after elections tore apart a 26-year history of political stalemate ? during which time no party had overall control in the borough.Looking back at the last 12 months Cllr Dowd says the first ... [Published Crosby Herald - May 09 2013]

Entities: Clement Attlee, Wirral, Liverpool (United Kingdom), Pollution

First reported May 05 2013 - Updated May 05 2013 - 1 reports

The Labour Party (United Kingdom)

Labour PMs were not to blame...

Sir.–I cannot let George Hulme's letter pass without comment. He refers to “those Labour PMs who wrecked our country in the 1950s”. Exactly who are they?Clement Attlee was PM from 1945 to 1951. There was not another Labour PM until the 1960s.Mr Attlee’s ... [Published Basingstoke Gazette - May 05 2013]

Entities: The Labour Party (United Kingdom), Clement Attlee, The Conservative Party (United Kingdom), NHS

First reported May 02 2013 - Updated May 02 2013 - 1 reports

Ed Miliband

A kiss for Ed

Ed Miliband gave 78-year-old voter Brenda White a kiss after she told him the spot where he gave a soapbox-style speech was where Clement Attlee had addressed voters 68 years earlier.The Labour leader was taking part in last-ditch campaigning for the ... [Published Herald Scotland - May 02 2013]

Entities: Clement Attlee, Ed Miliband, Eaton Corporation, Elections

First reported Apr 29 2013 - Updated Apr 29 2013 - 1 reports

Labour’s rural legacy under threat

In some ways, Tom Williams was an unlikely hero of British agricultural workers. After all, as a coal miner, he was associated with heavy industry before entering parliament for the Don Valley seat in 1922. As a cabinet minister, however, he made his ... [Published Progress Labour's Progressives - Apr 29 2013]

Entities: Tom Williams, Workers, Clement Attlee

First reported Apr 29 2013 - Updated Apr 29 2013 - 1 reports

Princess Diana should be the new face of the £5 note - MSN poll result

Our take on how a Princess Diana £5 note might lookThe next person to be honoured on a banknote should be Diana, Princess of Wales.Almost half of those who took part in an MSN poll said they would like to see Diana, who died in a car crash in 1997, commemorated ... [Published MSN UK - Apr 29 2013]

Entities: Princess Diana, Clement Attlee, Margaret Thatcher, Bank of England, Joan Sutherland

First reported Apr 27 2013 - Updated Apr 27 2013 - 1 reports

It's A Gray Area: Lessons from Thatcherism remain relevant

As you know, Margaret Thatcher died April 8 at the age of 87 after serving as Britain's prime minister from 1979 until 1990. We owe her a debt for at least two reasons, one of them principled, the other cautionary.First and foremost, Thatcher took office ... [Published Daily Pilot - Apr 27 2013]

Entities: Margaret Thatcher, Clement Attlee, Winston Churchill

First reported Apr 26 2013 - Updated Apr 26 2013 - 1 reports

Labour needs Clement Attlee's spirit – but not his strategic blunder | Frances O'Grady

Rebuilding Britain will take the political courage of 1945. But a similar lack of vision on industrial democracy could be fatal When Clement Attlee died Harold Wilson commented: "Fainter hearts than his would have used the nation's economic difficulties ... [Published Comment is free | guardian.co.uk - Apr 26 2013]

Entities: Clement Attlee, Frances O'Grady, United Kingdom, Workers

First reported Apr 25 2013 - Updated Apr 25 2013 - 1 reports

Johnson attacks are a diversion

I don’t care where Jo Johnson went to school. Here’s why.Hours after Jo Johnson was appointed to his new job as head of the No 10 policy unit, several commentators took to Twitter to merrily announce that the prime minister, the head of his policy unit, ... [Published Progress Labour's Progressives - Apr 25 2013]

Entities: Private School, Tony Blair, Tony Benn, Clement Attlee, Jo Johnson

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Formidable fighter for rights of workers [Published This is Somerset - 18 hours ago]
OPPOSITION MYTHS, POLITICAL REALITIES [Published groundviews - May 18 2013]
State leaders resent central patronage and pref... [Published KeralaNext.com - May 18 2013]
Bad Reputation [Published Foreign Affairs - May 16 2013]
The sad demise of a President's floating palace... [Published Mail Online UK - May 15 2013]
The Myth of the Sainted Attlee [Published The Independent - May 14 2013]
Marginals or marginalia? [Published Progress Labour's Progressives - May 14 2013]
'Quango' Seanad is worth saving [Published Irish Independent - May 12 2013]
Want to go up the corporate ladder? Take part i... [Published Hindu Business Line - May 10 2013]
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Margaret Thatcher was not right-wing [Published New Statesman - May 10 2013]
«Ich bin ein Berliner» - US-Präsidenten in Deut... [Published Europe Online Magazine - May 10 2013]
On this day: Seafield Colliery\| Potters Bar dis... [Published The Scotsman - May 10 2013]
My first year: Peter Dowd looks back at Labour’... [Published Crosby Herald - May 09 2013]
Today's News: Archbishop of York gives oldest N... [Published The Journal - May 08 2013]
Kick privileged bankers’ man The Remembrancer o... [Published Mirror.co.uk - May 08 2013]
District News - May 3 [Published Lynn News - May 06 2013]
Labour PMs were not to blame... [Published Basingstoke Gazette - May 05 2013]
Changing times [Published New Delhi Pioneer - May 03 2013]
RELEASE: The English Collector - Four Chairs fr... [Published Christie's - May 03 2013]
Beyond the fringe [Published Canberra Times - May 02 2013]
A kiss for Ed [Published Herald Scotland - May 02 2013]
City centre Rivers House to make its debut on t... [Published Yorkshire Post - May 02 2013]
Tavish Scott: On track for a global golden oppo... [Published The Scotsman - May 02 2013]
UK & World News: Miliband hails 'fantastic' cam... [Published Liverpool Echo - May 01 2013]
The slow death of the NHS [Published Northern Echo - May 01 2013]
A new dawn for the Unions? Frances O’Grady and ... [Published open Democracy News Analysis - - May 01 2013]
Jean Floud [Published Telegraph - Apr 30 2013]
Philip White: The Winston Churchill Fiver, Davi... [Published Huffington Post UK - Apr 30 2013]
Students On Course for World Leadership [Published Access Industries - Apr 30 2013]

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OPPOSITION MYTHS, POLITICAL REALITIES [Published groundviews - May 18 2013] Image courtesy Asianews.it Erroneous political thinking and analysis obscure and obstruct the path of the political recovery of the Opposition in Sri Lanka. They can be disaggregated into six myths. Myth 1 is that unity at all costs in the ...
Labour needs Clement Attlee's spirit – but not ... [Published Comment is free \| guardian.co.uk - Apr 26 2013] Rebuilding Britain will take the political courage of 1945. But a similar lack of vision on industrial democracy could be fatal When Clement Attlee died Harold Wilson commented: "Fainter hearts than his would have used the nation's economic difficulties ...
Tebbit gets it right: Margaret Thatcher was a g... [Published News » Politics - Apr 10 2013] I've just listened to a remarkable speech by Lord Tebbit, Tory statesman and much-loved Telegraph blogger, about the legacy of Margaret Thatcher. He reminded his fellow peers that Mrs Thatcher was one of two great British postwar prime ministers – the ...
Full text and audio: David Cameron’s tribute to... [Published The Coffee House \| Politics and News Discussion ... - Apr 10 2013] listen to ‘David Cameron’s tribute to Margaret Thatcher, 10 Apr 13’ on Audioboo // <![CDATA[ (function() { var po = document.createElement("script"); po.type = "text/javascript"; po.async = true; po.src = "http://d15mj6e6qmt1na.cloudfront.net/assets/embed.js"; ...
Was Margaret Thatcher Britain's greatest post-w... [Published FP Passport - Apr 08 2013] p>The rare public figure as beloved by some as she was reviled by others, Margaret Thatcher, who died today at 87, was the first female prime minister in British history and a world leader who arguably did more than anyone else to usher in today's ...