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Hace 2 días · Blair left office in 2007 with ongoing problems in Iraq bubbling on the surface, and having lost Labour control in Scotland and Wales; however, a crowning achievement of these years was the restoration of devolved government in Northern Ireland.
Hace 2 días · Sir Anthony Charles Lynton Blair KG (born 6 May 1953) is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007. He served as Leader of the Opposition from 1994 to 1997 and held various shadow cabinet posts from 1987 to 1994.
Hace 5 días · It has been 20 years since condoms full of purple flour were thrown at the then Prime Minister Tony Blair – a political protest by a father’s rights group who wanted justice for divorced dads.
Hace 1 día · 23rd May 2024. One of the characteristic features of the 1997 Labour Party general election campaign was their use of D:Ream’s song “Things Can Only Get Better” in their campaign video. This song was selected to conjure optimism following what many saw as eighteen years of Conservative failure which had left the country at an all-time low.
Hace 5 días · June 25, 1903, Motihari, Bengal, India. Died: January 21, 1950, London, England (aged 46) Notable Works: “A Clergyman’s Daughter” “A Hanging” “Animal Farm” “Burmese Days” “Coming Up for Air” “Down and Out in Paris and London” “Homage to Catalonia” “Keep the Aspidistra Flying” “Nineteen Eighty-four” “Shooting an Elephant” “Such, Such Were the Joys”
- George Orwell wrote the political fable Animal Farm (1944), the anti-utopian novel Nineteen Eighty-four (1949), the unorthodox political treatise T...
- George Orwell won scholarships to two of England’s leading schools, Wellington and Eton colleges. He briefly attended the former before transferrin...
- George Orwell was brought up in an atmosphere of impoverished snobbery, first in India and then in England. His father was a minor British official...
- George Orwell wrote two hugely influential novels: Animal Farm (1944), a satire that allegorically depicted Joseph Stalin’s betrayal of the Russian...
Hace 1 día · Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950) was an English novelist, poet, essayist, journalist, and critic who wrote under the pen name of George Orwell. His work is characterised by lucid prose, social criticism, opposition to totalitarianism, and support of democratic socialism.
Hace 5 días · This place was built in the Blair years and it has a name that captures the globular optimism of that era, back when the power of public-private partnership was about to sweep us all into a glorious post-historical era of just going shopping all the time.
