• Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
  • blog
  • About
  • Book Publications
  • Other Reading
  • Social Wall
  • Back Pages
  • Contact Me

Tim Lott

Jeremy Corbyn, Tony Blair and Keir Starmer and when was Britain’s Golden Age?

April 9, 2020
Jeremy Corbyn, Tony Blair and Keir Starmer and when was Britain’s Golden Age? Gerry Hassan Scottish Review, April 8th 2020 Every society has a golden age – often mythical, but with some relationship to events and reality. In Britain, this is often continually referenced as World War Two, ‘the Blitz spirit’ and Dunkirk – all much in evidence in recent weeks in the face of coronavirus. Other stories are available but get less coverage and mileage. One is that of ‘the swinging sixties’ and the Beatles; another is the idea (floated by the New Economics Foundation) that 1976 was the

Continue Reading Jeremy Corbyn, Tony Blair and Keir Starmer and when was Britain’s Golden Age?

Primary Sidebar

categories

  • Blog
  • Events
  • Futures Thinking
  • International Conversations
  • Longer Essays
  • Short Essays
  • What Gerry's groovin' to
  • What Gerry's reading
FacebookTwitter

featured publication

Scotland Rising: The Case for Independence

Click here to buy Gerry’s latest book.

what Gerry’s groovin’ to

My Music Albums of the Year

January 2, 2025

what Gerry’s reading

Books of the Year: Politics, History, Culture and Ideas

December 26, 2024

tags

Scottish politics | Scottish Independence | Scottish Review | British politics | The Scotsman | Scottish Nationalists | Scottish Nationalism | Open Democracy | Nicola Sturgeon | Scottish Labour Party | Sunday National | Scottish society | The British State | Sunday Mail | Brexit | Scottish National Party | Boris Johnson | Social Democracy | British Labour Party | Conservative Party | Bella Caledonia | Alex Salmond | Jeremy Corbyn | Popular Culture | Scottish Parliament | David Cameron | The National | Scottish Independence Referendum | Labour Party | Scottish Media | British Conservatives | British Nationalism | Social Justice | Scottish Unionism | British Society | Scottish Men | The Future of the Left | 2021 Scottish Parliament elections | Scottish Devolution | SNP

Categories

Footer

about Gerry

Gerry Hassan is a writer, commentator and thinker about Scotland, the UK, politics and ideas.

More >

recent

  • After Hamilton, Scottish Politics and the Cause of Independence
  • Why the Reform Bandwagon is coming to Scotland – and what can be done to stop it?
  • The Road from 2014 is Over: A New Road Map is needed for Scotland and Independence

search

FacebookTwitter

Terms of Use | Privacy Statement
Copyright © Gerry Hassan - writing, research, policy and ideas. All Rights Reserved.
Illustration and website design by Infinite Eye