The Guardian (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
In praise of... Denis HealeyVery occasionally, there is only one answer in politics: the really stonking lie. in government in the 1960s and 70s was brutally exposed to two such moments. One related to sterling's fragile health, the other to the willingness of politicians of the left to use - rather than merely stockpile - nuclear weapons. Part of the success of Denis Healey,...
BBC News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Here, historian Professor Peter Hennessy tours the Corsham bunker for Radio 4 - and finds out if the former Labour Defence Secretary Denis Healey, and the late Prime Minister Sir James Callaghan, would have retaliated in the event of a Soviet nuclear attack.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
It was not Denis Healey who promised to squeeze the rich until the pips squeaked; it was Sir Eric Geddes, speaking at Cambridge in 1918, and he was not referring to the rich but to the Germans.
Re-cycle of Life (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008
If David Owen was made Foreign Secretary and Denis Healey turned up at the Treasury, it couldn't feel more like Labour is taking us back to the mid to late 1970s. Bruce Forsyth is big box office, there's ballroom dancing on the telly and power cuts will be along shortly . All that is missing is Scotland thinking, wrongly, it can win the next World Cup and widespread industrial unrest....
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
... what it used to be. Even so, critics who liken Disaster Darling to his fore-runner Chancellor Denis Healey are being a bit unfair. To Healey, that is. The Labour Chancellor of the 1970s imposed additional taxes on what he called “unearned income” from savings and investments. By contrast, this week’s pre-Budget report favoured those forms of financial return while adding to...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
It's not just the eyebrows that link Alistair Darling and Denis Healey.
Re-cycle of Life (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
We have been here before. For anybody who lived through that stimulating epoch in British history, the 1970s - more particularly the Winter of Discontent - the current landscape is assuming a reassuring familiarity. We are back in the sepia-toned days when the bailiffs from the IMF came to Number 11 to take away Denis Healey's furniture.
Liberal Burblings (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
... hysterical nonsense. Even the demonstrates that, while attempting to make the opposite point:Denis Healey, the Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer, increased the higher rate of tax on incomes of £20,000 and above to 83 per cent in 1975. Those earning more than £8,000 a year paid 60 per cent.On top of that, there was a special 15 per cent surcharge for 'unearned income'. So anyone living...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
The Shadow Chancellor's fury delighted Tory backbenchers who shrieked their support. He talked about all Labour governments ending up bankrupt and finished with a joke about Denis Healey carrying on driving rather than returning from the airport to try and defend the pound if he had had to announce the figures Alistair Darling had been forced to reveal.
