Roy Hattersley
Articles by Roy Hattersley
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Books
Last among equals
- 26 March 2009
The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett Allen Lane, 352pp, £20
UK Politics
Gordon's path to redemption
- 25 September 2008
- 4 comments
To seize the moment, Gordon Brown has to change course; not a U-turn or swerve to the left, but a prudent adjustment of direction, writes Labour's former deputy leader
UK Politics
Labour must find its faith
- 15 May 2008
- 19 comments
One of the most damaging illusions of the "Third Way" has been that you can devise policies which disadvantage no one, argues the Labour ex-deputy leader
Politics
Back to the future
- 27 September 2007
- 3 comments
It seems to me just possible that at last we may have a Croslandite Prime Minister
Life & Society
The empire gets its revenge - on me!
- 11 December 2006
The four men in the lorry cab drove us before them on the narrow causeway like a flock of sheep. We broke into a trot. It was patronising, but not really malicious
Books
Born to rule
- 24 April 2006
- 1 comment
Blackshirt: Sir Oswald Mosley and British fascism Stephen Dorril Viking, 717pp, £30 ISBN 0670869996
Ideas
NS Essay -'Meritocracy is no substitute for equality. By definition it provides ''escape routes'' for only a minority of the population. What is more, without greater equality it does not even extend the mobility which Tony Blair claims is the object of his political philosophy'
- 06 February 2006
Tony Blair never uses the word, yet suddenly everybody else has started to - even the new Tories. Equality is back on the agenda, and whatever they may say in Downing Street, only Labour is capable of making Britain more equal
Ideas
NS Essay - 'The importance of loyalty to an idea is not just a matter of personal conscience. It is a requirement of genuine democracy'
- 11 July 2005
When Tony Blair accused him of disloyalty, Roy Hattersley was inclined to let it go. Then he saw that the Prime Minister's idea of loyalty was personal: he believes people should be loyal to him. Labour's former deputy leader disagrees - with a passion
Books
Publish and be damned
- 02 May 2005
The Laughter of Triumph: William Hone and the fight for the free press Ben Wilson Faber & Faber, 455pp, £16.99 ISBN 0571224709
