Hugh gaitskell
Fear of Fridges
Digital data can be amazing. I wrote an article for the New Statesman in the 1980s called “Fear of fridges”, in which I quoted a speech of Hugh Gaitskell’s in which he seemed to blame Labour’s lack of electoral success in the 1950s on the spread of fridge ownership.
That was all I could remember, but [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Sunday, 14 April 2013 at 10:54 am
Gaitskell and Blair
I admire Hugh Gaitskell as much as the next Eurosceptic social democrat, but must protest at Donald Macintyre’s use of him to traduce Tony Blair in today’s Independent.
Don seems to think that Blair went out of his way* to omit reference to Gaitskell in his memoir, and that this omission is “telling”. What it tells [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Saturday, 5 January 2013 at 11:23 am
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