Roy Hattersley

Politics

The left's favourite Tories: Andrew Bonar Law

• 06 October 2011

Non Fiction

The Purple Book: a Progressive Future for Labour

• 26 September 2011

These colours don't run.

Non Fiction

Ed: the Milibands and the Making of a Labour Leader

• 04 July 2011

Books

Ragged edge

• 10 February 2011
• 1 comment

Robert Tressell was guilty of the sin of despair.

UK Politics

Why I stayed with Labour

• 27 January 2011

I fought to save the party after the foundation of the SDP-Liberal Alliance.

UK Politics

Tony Howard, establishment radical

• 06 January 2011

Roy Hattersley pays tribute to the former New Statesman editor and leaker of secrets from Suez.

Life & Society

Roy Hattersley’s New Year’s resolution

• 23 December 2010

Magazines

Tony Howard: establishment radical

• 21 December 2010
• 5 comments

Roy Hattersley remembers a complex man, willing to promote and enjoy the success of others.

UK Politics

Maggie Thatcher’s long goodbye

• 18 November 2010
• 18 comments

Just two nights before Margaret Thatcher resigned as prime minister, 20 years ago this month, she had vowed to fight on. She needn’t have worried – Tony Blair soon picked up where she left off.

Books

London Labour and the London Poor

• 18 October 2010
• 2 comments

Henry Mayhew’s record of Dickensian squalor is both a superb work of investigative journalism and a model of clear English prose style.