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Discontent arises from a knowledge of the possible, as contrasted with the actual. from In Place of Fear, 1952
View ArticleLABOUR’S GREATEST HERO: NYE BEVAN, by Rt Hon Ed Balls MP
(First published on guardian.co.uk, 19 February 2008) Ask a Labour MP who are the real heroes of our party, and I guarantee this will be their instinctive response: the thousands of members up and down...
View ArticlePREFACE TO ‘IN PLACE OF FEAR’, by Geoffrey Goodman
(Preface to the 2008 edition of ‘In Place of Fear’, published by the Bevan Society) Aneurin Bevan was one of a select band of the most remarkable men to have moved across the global political stage in...
View ArticleResignation speech – 23 April 1951
Mr. Speaker, it is one of the immemorial courtesies of the House of Commons that when a Minister has felt it necessary to resign his office, he is provided with an opportunity of stating his reasons to...
View ArticleTHE GREATEST COMMONS PERFORMANCE, Tam Dalyell
As a speaker at an evening meeting at Leeds University, I was invited to stay the night with the vice-chancellor Lord Boyle, who as Sir Edward Boyle had been minister of education in the Conservative...
View ArticleWeapons for squalid and trivial ends – House of Commons, December 5 1956
The speech to which we have just listened is the last of a long succession that the right honourable gentleman, the secretary of state for foreign affairs, has made to the House in the last few months...
View ArticleINTRODUCTION TO ‘IN PLACE OF FEAR’, Rt Hon Gordon Brown MP
(Introduction to the 2008 edition of ‘In Place of Fear’, published by the Bevan Society) I am honoured and delighted to have been asked to contribute an introduction to this new edition of In Place of...
View ArticleThe 2015 Aneurin Bevan Memorial Lecture – Wednesday 25th November
The 2015 Aneurin Bevan Memorial Lecture, delivered by Will Hutton, will take place on Wednesday, 25th November at 6pm in Committee Room 9, House of Commons, hosted by Christina Rees MP. RSVP here
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