Roy Hattersley
Articles by Roy Hattersley
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UK Politics
Gordon's path to redemption
- 25 September 2008
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
Books
Work to rule
- 24 May 2004
United We Stand: a history of Britain's trade unions
Alastair J Reid Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 496pp, £25
ISBN 0713997583
Ideas
NS Essay - We should have made it clear that we too were modernisers
- 10 May 2004
Roy Hattersley admits that Blair's critics failed to argue their own case for "modern social democracy" with enough vigour. If they press their programme now, it is not too late to rescue the government
