Harold Wilson

Harold Wilson
Harold Wilson
Type: Person
Name: Harold Wilson
Title: Former Prime Miniter (deceased)
Organization: United Kingdom
Date of Birth: 11/03/1916-24/05/1995
Place of Birth: Cowlersley, Huddersfield, Yorkshire
Nationality: United Kingdom
Fact Sheet: Biography for Harold Wilson
First reported 4 hours ago - Updated 4 hours ago - 1 reports

No to a referendum

Ed Miliband is wrong: it’s time for a referendum on Europe. While we’re at it, I’ve never been consulted about the abandonment of the gold standard, so let’s throw that one in there, too. Ed Balls is a controversial figure: let’s have a referendum on ... [Published Progress Labour's Progressives - 4 hours ago]
First reported May 20 2013 - Updated 19 hours ago - 1 reports

Europe's national wild cards

DUBLIN ― Europe’s needs and Europeans’ desires are at odds. At a time when strong, coordinated action is needed to stave off financial collapse in the European Union, the popular support that drove European integration over the last six decades is wa ... [Published Korea Times - May 20 2013]
First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

Please end the EU exit debate

London: I sometimes think that, by the time I die, my entire life will have been blighted by sterile, unresolved arguments about Europe. I have to admit that the foundation of the European Coal and Steel Community in 1951 made little impression on me ... [Published Deccan Chronicle - May 20 2013]
First reported May 19 2013 - Updated May 19 2013 - 1 reports

Mary Washington, 79, of Shaw

, at Pilgrim Rest Church in Shaw with the Rev. Harold Wilson officiating. Burial immediately followed the services in the church cemetery under the direction of Delta Burial of Mound Bayou.Washington was born on August 2, 1933, in Panthburn to Gilbert ... [Published Bolivar Commercial - May 19 2013]
First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 1 reports

RSU 40 teachers receive recognition

Photo by: Beth A. Birmingham Teachers in RSU 40 receive recognition for completing Literacy Coaching training during a May 16 school board meeting. From left are Angela Hoch, Rebecca Hyler, Kelley Splaine, Ann Holland and Linda Baldwin.Waldoboro — Five ... [Published Knox Village Soup - May 18 2013]
First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 1 reports

The Biden Boom

The Weekly Standard reserves the right to use your email for internal use only. Occasionally, we may send you special offers or communications from carefully selected advertisers we believe may be of benefit to our subscribers. Click the box to be included ... [Published Weekly Standard - May 18 2013]
First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 2 reports

How to get more older women on TV | Anna Ford

This week's finding that just 18% of presenters are women over 50 doesn't surprise me – but it does make me angry I enjoyed my life in news and current affairs, which started at Granada TV in 1974 and ended at the BBC in 2006.I was privileged to have ... [Published Guardian.co.uk - May 18 2013]
First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Airports: four decades of cancellations is enough

Last year I made two longish-haul journeys for the Gazette to fast-growing economies of interest to UK law firms. Neither of my destinations – Bogota and Erbil – had a direct flight from London. The trips involved spending time (and money) in Amsterdam, ... [Published Law Society Gazette - May 16 2013]
First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

James Dickens

, who has died aged 82, was a persistent and articulate Left-wing critic of Harold Wilson’s government during the parliament of 1966-70. He opposed it over Vietnam and moves to join the Common Market, but was most outspoken against its economic policies. ... [Published Telegraph - May 16 2013]
First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Letters, Wednesday, May 15, 2013

FOR a number of years myself and others campaigned for British Rail and later Railtrack to paint the Harrison bridge over the Wear and recognise its architectural significance to Sunderland’s heritage.An excellent restoration was carried out a few years ... [Published Sunderland Echo - May 16 2013]
First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Robert Winston touches on spiritualism as he delivers Harold Wilson lecture in Huddersfield

SCIENTISTS who refuse to acknowledge mankind?s spiritual dimension are damaging science, Lord Robert Winston argued when he delivered the tenth annual Harold Wilson Lecture.The eminent scientist spoke at Huddersfield University in a lecture entitled Playing ... [Published Huddersfield Daily Examiner - May 16 2013]
First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

‘Only half a dozen pits left’

IN answer to the letter from C Keegan, may I point out that Harold Wilson did close more pits than Mrs Thatcher, more than 100 more nationally.A list of pit closures produced by the NUM stated that we had 60 pits in the north west area on nationalisa ... [Published Leigh Journal - May 16 2013]

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No to a referendum [Published Progress Labour's Progressives - 4 hours ago]
Please end the EU exit debate [Published Deccan Chronicle - May 20 2013]
Europe's national wild cards [Published Korea Times - May 20 2013]
Mary Washington, 79, of Shaw [Published Bolivar Commercial - May 19 2013]
Denis Healey: Westminster 'worried stiff' about... [Published Stv.tv - May 19 2013]
RSU 40 teachers receive recognition [Published Knox Village Soup - May 18 2013]
The Biden Boom [Published Weekly Standard - May 18 2013]
How to get more older women on TV | Anna Ford [Published Guardian.co.uk - May 18 2013]
How to get more older women on TV [Published NewsRT.co.uk - May 18 2013]
John Rentoul: A case study in disunity [Published The Gulf Today - May 18 2013]
Notes from a small island: Is Sealand an indepe... [Published The Independent - May 18 2013]
Acas prepares for expanded workload [Published Nottingham Post - May 17 2013]
James Dickens [Published Telegraph - May 16 2013]
Airports: four decades of cancellations is enough [Published Law Society Gazette - May 16 2013]
Letters, Wednesday, May 15, 2013 [Published Sunderland Echo - May 16 2013]
Robert Winston touches on spiritualism as he de... [Published Huddersfield Daily Examiner - May 16 2013]
‘Only half a dozen pits left’ [Published Leigh Journal - May 16 2013]
Matthew d'Ancona: This Tory squabble over Europ... [Published London Evening Standard - May 15 2013]
Faversham photographer's work snapped up on Cha... [Published This is Kent - May 15 2013]
Did The Federal Government Of Nigeria Engage In... [Published Eurasia Review - May 15 2013]
David A. Love: Putting the Brakes on Philly's D... [Published Huffington Post - May 15 2013]
Floundering in a European mire of his own makin... [Published Mail Online UK - May 15 2013]
Labour peer aims to get the wind up his party [Published London Evening Standard - May 14 2013]
David Cameron should beware the referendum trap [Published NewsRT.co.uk - May 14 2013]
David Cameron should beware the referendum trap... [Published Guardian.co.uk - May 14 2013]
Guardian/ICM poll: none of the above | Editorial [Published Guardian.co.uk - May 13 2013]
The Wiki Man How to Fix an Election [Published HighBeam Research - May 13 2013]
European wolf moves in on Cameron [Published TD Ameritrade - May 13 2013]
The top ten: Misquotations [Published The Independent - May 12 2013]
History is where the great battles of public li... [Published Guardian.co.uk - May 12 2013]
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University Shambles: How to Ruin the Best Unive... [Published Energy Balance - May 11 2013]
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My Part in the Rise of Ken Livingstone [Published Mail Online - Peter Hitchens - May 09 2013]
Tonight I’m down to debate at the Oxford Union on the motion that ‘This House Remembers New Labour Warmly’(or is it fondly?) . I shall be speaking against.  My main ally, enjoyably enough,  is my old comrade Ken Livingstone. This won’t be the first time ...
When Money Dies - the horrors of inflation [Published Mail Online - Peter Hitchens - May 08 2013]
Most of us think we know about the great German hyper-inflation of 1923 – the people struggling through the streets with wheelbarrows full of billion-Mark notes (it really happened – but sometimes thieves stole the wheelbarrows and left the money behind) ...
Why David Cameron can’t copy Harold Wilson on E... [Published The Coffee House | Politics and News Discussion ... - May 07 2013]
It’s at times like this I’m glad I’m not a Europhile. I imagine that Lord Lawson’s article in today’s Times is causing Brussels-lovers up and down the land a number of headaches this afternoon, not least because it is incredibly detailed and hard to ...
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 ...
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VIDEO: TV channel hosts Harold Wilson night [Published BBC News Video - Politics - Feb 14 2013]
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