Inspired by Women’s History Month, The National Archives has launched a new display on its replica Cabinet table at Kew. The display, ‘Political pioneers: The first 20 women in Cabinet’ , features rec...
03.22.2023 Gov.ukWEDNESDAY Quentin Tarantino’ s unforgettable war opus is a blood-soaked fairytale set in Nazi-occupied France, divided into five hefty chapters. He plays fast and loose with historical fact, and...
03.22.2023 Independent.ieBy Emily Doughty Early in his time in office, Clement Attlee received a letter from a railway worker. The man, who did not want to burden Attlee “did wish to see that a success is made of the national...
03.25.2023 Palatinate.org.ukAn anti-communist is a dog. You won’t budge me on that. I won’t ever be budged on that. Jean-Paul Sartre Interviewed in 1984 by a Hungarian television crew which had come to visit him in his Parisian ...
03.24.2023 Reportwire.orgServant leadership is important in religion. In politics, the idea that a leader can simply pour themselves out as an offering to God, seems improbable. Whatever else, great political leaders have no shortage of ego. They come with a transformative vision for their society. Being the right person for the times, they implement it. The great leaders in Britain include Clement Attlee in 1945, and Margaret Thatcher in 1979. In the US, Barack Obama promised to be great – but he was never able to over...
03.26.2023 Thenational.scotLiberal Commitments Liberal Commitments An interview with Michael Walzer on The Struggle for a Decent Politics. Prime Minister Clement Attlee, who presided over the establishment of the British welfar...
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