Alan Watkins
Articles by Alan Watkins
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Politics
Speech! Speech!
- 11 December 2008
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Oratory helped secure the presidency for Barack Obama and saved Gordon Brown's premiership. Alan Watkins explains the art of wooing the party faithful while ten distinguished commentators choose their personal favourites
Society
When the kidding had to stop
- 06 September 2007
Taken from The New Statesman 6th September 1968 This coming week, Gordon Brown will address the annual Trades Union Congress (TUC). The trade union movement is no longer the mighty force it once was. In 1968, when Alan Watkins, as this magazine’s political correspondent, travelled to Blackpool to cover the centenary TUC, union leaders were powerful enough to threaten the Labour government. But, as Watkins discerned, the alliance between unions and Labour was already starting to fray. Selected by Robert Taylor
