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ByClement Attlee
Why don’t we have a Department for Housing?
Some political heft and gravitas could provide much-needed focus to this overlooked portfolio.
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We shouldn’t demonise Winston Churchill – or deify him
The point of history is to see people and situations in the round rather than to succumb to satisfying myths.
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From the NS archive: Reorientations on the razor’s edge
28 September 1946: How to forge an effective socialist foreign policy for the country.
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The left’s fatal longing for life as usual
Vladimir Putin’s war isn’t just on Ukraine; it is a war being waged against the collective West.
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Sheila Hancock Q&A: “I met Clement Attlee when I was working at the circus”
The actor on how education changes lives, falling in love and the brilliance of Shuggie Bain.
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Attlee and Churchill: leaders united through war
Winston Churchill said Clement Attlee was a modest man who had much to be modest about. But they worked together…
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Clement Attlee detested faddish radicalism – you couldn’t say that Jeremy Corbyn is his heir
“The people’s flag is palest pink,” Attlee quipped. “It’s not red blood but only ink.” That slogan should be stamped…
ByClement Attlee: An unromantic hero
The left never understood Clement Attlee’s British patriotism, but the nation did. It’s time Labour properly rediscovered its great postwar…
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