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Paul Anderson journalist: LABOUR'S UNION PROBLEM
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Friday, 7 February 2014. Paul Anderson, Tribune. Column, 7 February 2014. Labour’s relationship with the trade unions has always been a problem. Union barons became fixtures in Labour politics, controlling local parties through their surrogates in much of the country and wielding decisive influence over the party conference – and between conferences they ran the National Executive Committee. Much more important, however, was the impact of the collapse of union membership during the 1980s and 1990s. T...
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Paul Anderson journalist: LOU REED WAS MY TEENAGE HERO
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Thursday, 31 October 2013. LOU REED WAS MY TEENAGE HERO. Column, 1 November 2013. There’s one song every band can play. If the words don’t ring a bell:. Standing on a corner. Suitcase in my hand. The riff will do it for you. Da – da, da, di, da – da, da, di,da. But it was only after the Velvet Underground went under, after the release of Loaded. Their most commercially-oriented LP, that people got Lou Reed. He was turned into an international superstar by David Bowie, then at the height of his fame, ...
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Paul Anderson journalist: MISCELLANEOUS
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Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). I was born in Edinburgh in 1959, grew up in Ipswich and studied Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Balliol College, Oxford (1978-81) and journalism at the London College of Printing (1982-83). I spent the 1980s and 1990s working for various radical publications, starting with Solidarity. I was deputy editor of European Nuclear Disarmament Journal. 1984-87), reviews editor (1986-91) and then editor (1991-93) of Tribune. Deputy editor of New Statesman and Society. I’ve ...
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Paul Anderson journalist: September 2013
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Thursday, 5 September 2013. THE LEFT'S DIRTY SECRET. Press has just published Moscow Gold? The Soviet Union and the British left. By me and Kevin Davey. Buy it! The Soviet Union and the British left. Posted by Paul Anderson. PROPER IMPERIALISM IS NOT ON THE AGENDA. Column, 6 September 2013. Is Ed Miliband an opportunist toe-rag? Is this the end of the special relationship? Which means that the people of Syria will continue to suffer in agony as humanitarians and liberals in the west wring their hands....
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Safety First: January 1998
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Thursday, 1 January 1998. Tom Phillips, Contemporary Review. Safety First: The Making of New Labour. By Paul Anderson and Nyta Mann (Granta, £9.99). Written from a 'critical libertarian left perspective', Safety First. Is a timely investigation into the personalities and politics behind New Labour's extraordinary victory. If this seems an unduly cynical version of events, Safety First. Such directness is refreshing. For a long time the left's debate with itself – once considered to be an import...Does th...
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Safety First: Hazel Croft, Socialist Review
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Monday, 1 December 1997. Hazel Croft, Socialist Review. Safety First: The Making of New Labour. By Paul Anderson and Nyta Mann (Granta, £9.99). The End of Parliamentary Socialism. By Leo Panitch and Colin Leys (Verso, £15). Why has Tony Blair been able to shift the Labour Party so far to the right, and why was the left wing inside the party so impotent in the face of the breathtaking speed of Blair's changes? Both these questions are tackled in those two new books. Safety First. Leo Panitch and Colin Ley...
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Safety First: Gillian Peele, Times Education Supplement
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Friday, 19 September 1997. Gillian Peele, Times Education Supplement. Safety First: The Making of New Labour. By Paul Anderson and Nyta Mann (Granta, £9.99). On May 1 this year the British electorate buried a Conservative government which had, to its mind, grown tired, arrogant and sleazy in power, and replaced it with New Labour, a beautifully packaged and relaunched product which looks set to dominate the market for some time to come. Paul Anderson, a former editor of Tribune. Such involvement may be s...
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Safety First: October 1997
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Saturday, 25 October 1997. Sion Simon, Spectator. Safety First: The Making of New Labour. By Paul Anderson and Nyta Mann (Granta, £9.99). This is not at all the book I expected. Paul Anderson and Nyta Mann are keen to point out that they are not Old Labour; but they are certainly not Blairites. They describe themselves as redistributivist libertarian socialists, whose beliefs are drawn from an eclectic range of sources. Keynes (1883-1946) was a Liberal. At which point there follow several thousand words ...
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Safety First: Roy Hattersley, Guardian
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Thursday, 25 September 1997. Roy Hattersley, Guardian. By Derek Draper (Faber, £7.99). Safety First: The Making of New Labour. By Paul Anderson and Nyta Mann (Granta, £9.99). To publish in September a book which deals with August's events is an achievement in itself. But in the case of Derek Draper's Blair's Hundred Days. The lily is not so much gilded, but made to appear covered in tinsel. Safety First: The Making of New Labour. That undoubted fact is made all the more inexplicable by what Safety First.
