How to win an Election: A Panorama Guide 

just like Neil Kinnock did...ahhhhh..hmmmmm..

@@rinkadink66 they got there in the end.

Even if I was inclined to overlook his awful columns for the Daily Mail, there are serious criticisms about how rigorous his work is. For a would be historical revisionist he seems to prefer comforting narratives. When has he ever produced a well-evidenced undermining of a previously accepted interpretation? His writing is also uneconomical - he seems to think the fatter the book, the better. Also you might want to read this blog: weneedtotalkaboutdominic.wordpress.com

An interesting perspective but could you provide a few examples, some specific books? Thanks for the link but the blog isn't great to be honest, not very well written and definitely not edited well

@@DBIVUKeh, I disagree with some of Sandbrook’s opinions, but I wouldn’t entirely disregard him as a historian. For public historians it is important for people to reach wide audiences and make things fun

His blog is very Tory & Corporatist. He doesn't scrutinize much at all. @@DBIVUK

Also any documentary about an era will be played to an ill fitting soundtrack of the decades pop music with no relevance to the subject

Well alright

@BossySwan WELL ALRIGHT! WELL ALRIGHT!! WELL ALLLLRRIIGGGHHT! We've got to get some serious talking here. * *12 hours of gibberish* * Now is the time for change. Now is the time for LABOUR!

He's a Tory historian

It plainly does not 'beg the question'. It might raise, or prompt, the question, but it does not 'beg the question' (which is the logical fallacy of assuming an answer when supposedly openly debating a question). As to why upload it, several reasons: 1) You may disagree with me and like it. 2) It may be poor overall but have good bits. 3) I never promised only to upload good quality content. 4) Someone may be looking for it having not seen it.

It's not just media manipulation - there's a huge streak of social conservatism that goes through the country and has done for centuries, and that very much includes in the working class - including among many who voted Labour. In the 1800s, working class areas of London and Lancashire swung to the Tories in protest at Irish and Jewish immigration. In the 1950s, a famous social attitudes survey found that the working class had the most right wing, authoritarian social attitudes of any social group, including strong support for banning mixed race marriages, support for sterilising the disabled, and very strong antipathy towards gay people and Jews. It was the working class who formed the bulk of support for Enoch Powell. It's one of the huge delusions on the left that support for the Tories is simply due to 'media manipulation'. It's much, much deeper than that.

I think that's the image they wanted to portray, but if we're honest, things were in many ways a lot worse back then. It was all just brushed under the carpet because people didn't want to imagine a lot of things existed. Just look at what the likes of Jimmy Saville was up to all through that period, and nobody said a thing.

Sadly you are On The Button !

U ok Hun?