
Sunder Katwala: Gandhi does not quite fit the bill of recognising ethnic minority Britons on our currency
He may have been one of the greatest figures to shape the 20th century, but a simplistic deification risks losing the complexity of the man.
He may have been one of the greatest figures to shape the 20th century, but a simplistic deification risks losing the complexity of the man.
Andrew Adonis’s new biography of “the first of a new breed of ‘common man’ who would manage the British state” and became one of the great Foreign Secretaries.
The great Parliamentarian then spoke to his colleagues from the heart. “Some Members wept,” Channon noted.
We lost Putney, but gained loads of poorer seats in the north and midlands. That’s highlighted the tensions.
It is straining to be bigger and better, and see further, faster. But the lesson of the story is that it can’t see everywhere at once.
Most voters will have what to them are more pressing reasons to reject Corbyn than anti-semitism. But none expose more fully why he must be stopped.
What he detests is less liberalism than democracy, and the obstacle it poses to Russian foreign policy objectives.
As long as traditional Labour voters stick with the party, opportunities for the Independent Group will be limited.
For how much longer can Ministers continue to try to defend a relationship which has become increasingly indefensible?
There would, quite rightly, be outrage if a senior Conservative figure delivered a speech to a crowd which waved fascist flags.
The erroneous assumption that hostile states were no longer relevant has rightly been abandoned. Now our Armed Forces need the resources to meet the challenge.
Once the State starts monitoring the counter-cultural Christian opinions, it could be your voluntary group next for thought-policing.
There is a legitimate question to be asked about whether UK universities have been fulfilling their duty to provide a model of reasoned discourse on Brexit.
EURATOM, WTO quotas, open skies agreements, banks’ ability to lend – all these involve change which it may not be possible to effect by April 2019.
Maybe Ken Livingstone can explain.