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Is Socialism on the Rise?
Alex Clackson Image © Hossam el-Hamalawy حسام الحملاوي As the economic crisis in Europe continues to make life challenging for ordinary citizens through high unemployment rates and cuts in the public...
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Turkish immigrants in Germany
Osmi Anannya Image © Zanthia It’s been 51 years since the once booming West Germany signed a recruitment agreement with Turkey to provide guest workers for the nation’s workforce. Usually unskilled...
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Has the Nobel Prize Committee Ignored the European Elephant in the Room?
Dave Scotford Image © Horia Varlan The European Union has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize after they were credited with six decades of work in advancing peace and stability across the region. While...
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Pensions for all and solidarity forever…
Legal Eagle copyright Professor Megan`s photostream I am aware that my recent comments concerning social democracy and the golden generation may have been slightly misconstrued. My intention was not to...
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Question Time – Democracy Lite?
Lincoln Green Copyright UK Parliaments photostream I was an audience member in the BBC Question Time broadcast from Lincoln on 17 January 2013, when David Dimbleby chaired a panel which included Mary...
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Cameron and the Referendum Game
Tom McGuire copyrigh European Union 2012 Council Union David Cameron finally gave his long-awaited speech on Britain’s relationship with the EU last Wednesday morning promising Britain an in/out...
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Thatcher and Thatcherism – by Eric J. Evans
LeftCentral Book Review © Image rahuldlucca`s photostream This is a bantamweight text, which packs a super-heavyweight punch. And Evans, whose first edition was published fifteen-years ago, has...
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Parliament Channel: Harold Wilson Night (Conference Speech)
LeftCentral Review © Image The Prime Minister`s Office photostream The BBC Parliament channel, dedicated last Thursday evening to Harold Wilson, a set of programmes which included a broadcast of...
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Robert Kee: History of Ireland Episode 4 FAMINE
Nora Connolly Image© illustrated London News, December 22, 1849 It’s so lonely round the fields of Athenry… Robert Kee focuses on the emotive issue of the Irish Potato Famine from 1845 to 1849....
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The Left and Margaret Thatcher
Frederick Cowell Image©Gingerblokey Margaret Thatcher’s death has resulted in many a hagiography, some national reflection and an almighty attack of political amnesia. Her pursuit of an agenda of...
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As mad as Hell: UKIP’s political success
Frederick Cowell Image© IndependentThinkerUK Nigel Farage is the most dangerous man in British politics. Why? He leads a party with no MPs and his party’s most well known policy, a referendum to...
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Love Will Tear the British Union apart…
Nora Connolly Image© The Scottish Government The SNP`s commitment to the principles enshrined in the British post-war settlement appear to be the motivating factor propelling Scotland toward...
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Orwell and Loach on Spain
Dr Alan Sennett Andreu Nin Even for the well read lay person, the politics of Republican Spain during the 1936-39 civil war can appear baffling. A viewing of Ken Loach’s 1995 film Land and Freedom...
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In Defence of the War Poets
Katherine Edwards Should the First World War be seen principally as a European and world catastrophe or as a British triumph? As we mark the centenary of the Great War, the debate on its commemoration...
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‘Truth’, immigration and the BBC
Image © Felix-felix Robin Richardson The Truth about Immigration was broadcast by the BBC on Tuesday 7 January, having been trailed in advance both widely and deeply. Viewers were promised it would be...
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Aristocrats, Adventurers and Ambulances book promotion@LeftCentral
Aristocrats, Adventurers and Ambulances When a military coup provoked civil war in Spain in July 1936, many thousands of people around the world rallied to provide humanitarian aid. Britons were no...
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Reconstructing Spain book promotion@LeftCentral
Reconstructing Spain This book explores the role of cultural heritage in post-conflict reconstruction, whether as a motor for the prolongation of violence or as a resource for building reconciliation....
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Lost World of Rhodes book promotion@LeftCentral
Lost World of Rhodes Four peoples, each with its own culture, language and faith, shared a small Mediterranean town and experienced, each in its own way, the upheavals of war, modernity, emigration...
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The Lost World of Rhodes by Nathan Shachar book review
Mike Guilfoyle Image © Mstyslav Chernov I was immediately drawn towards Nathan Shachar’s evocative and moving book on the formative historic influences that have he notes contributed so much to the...
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Book Review: Linda Palfreeman, Aristocrats, Adventurers and Ambulances.
Alan Sennett Image © Bas de Jong Linda Palfreeman’s new book, Aristocrats, Adventurers and Ambulances. British Medical Units in the Spanish Civil War, makes an important contribution to the...
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