Tam Dalyell (1932-2017).
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The unique parliamentarian who coined the West Lothian question.
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What we need now is unblinkered analysis and coordinated progressive political action beyond the extreme centre at both the national and international levels.
Thatcher meets Mandela after his release in 1990.
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To get Nelson Mandela released and save Namibia’s independence elections, Thatcher proposed a massive aid programme.
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Women have always had to fight gender rules in order to gain power.
Mission accomplished: putting a positive spin on Iraq.
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Journalists call it the ‘dark arts’, and public relations is more powerful than ever.
What’s it all about, wonders Sandy Grierson.
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Anything That Gives Off Light explores Scottishness from three very different perspectives.
Talking tough against privilege.
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May’s plans to transform business are more radical than they first appear.
Boris Johnson outside Whitehall in London.
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Boris Johnson, the man who led the Brexit campaign, has been appointed as the UK’s chief diplomat. It has sent shudders down many spines, but does Africa need to worry?
What are you having?
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The wane and wax of Euroscepticism in Britain.
Lost in the fog? How the fraudsters got their morals.
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Corporate wrongdoing is underpinned by a morality that many of us have voted for.
Johnson has left the building.
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He claims to not have what it takes to be leader, but only the justice secretary stands a chance of giving the Thatcherites what they crave.
The truth is out on how the media’s reporting of the Hillsborough disaster impacted the public perception of the tragedy, but could the same be said for the British miners’ strike?
What does the UK get back?
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Why does the UK get money back on what it sends to the EU budget?
Scott Morrison said the government’s changes to superannuation were done in the name of fairness.
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The only problem with an appeal to fairness is there is no single understanding of what the word means.
EU want some?
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This referendum is not about Europe – it’s about what it means to be a British Conservative.
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Thatcher’s right to buy scheme had some unexpected consequences for society’s most disadvantaged citizens.
Tony Abbott’s modest domestic policy record in office is dwarfed by Margaret Thatcher’s dismantling of socialism.
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Tony Abbott’s Margaret Thatcher Lecture, delivered in London on Tuesday night, provides a fitting epitaph to his government.
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If the commercial media has its way the BBC will end up cash-strapped and shackled by regulation.
Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill are immortalised as political heroes, but both had personal issues that might have proved politically fatal today.
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Every culture needs heroes. So when our political system becomes incapable of giving us any, where does that leave us?
The ‘Selsdon man’ only managed to win one election.
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As British prime minister from 1970 to 1974, Heath took the UK into Europe.