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17 de abr. de 2024 · Tony Benn (born April 3, 1925, London, England—died March 14, 2014, London) was a British politician, member of the Labour Party, and, from the 1970s, unofficial leader of the party’s radical populist left. Though a fierce critic of the British class system, Benn came from a moneyed and privileged family himself.
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5 de may. de 2024 · The Searchers by Andy Beckett review – the leftists who took their lead from Tony Benn. An absorbing study of five Labour radicals – Jeremy Corbyn, Diane Abbott, John McDonnell, Ken...
Hace 6 días · Such obsessiveness seems baffling to the unbeliever. Why, they wonder, doesn’t the left just give up? This book offers an answer. “Leftwing politics,” Beckett claims, “is rarely the dead end its...
7 de may. de 2024 · 7 May 2024. How the Corbynite left hit self-destruct. Andy Beckett’s The Searchers charts the rise and fall of Tony Benn’s heirs, but fails to confront the obstinacy and intolerance that undid them. By Jonathan Rutherford. Illustration by Anthony Gerace.
Hace 2 días · Tony Benn always publicly made light of contracting Guillain-Barré syndrome during the 1981 leadership campaign, but the implication is that Beckett isn’t so sure. The virus affected the politician for the rest of his life, causing him to walk with a slight shuffle and write with simple, jagged strokes.
5 de may. de 2024 · Beckett’s The Searchers is a group biography-cum-long durée history of Bennism that tracks their political lives through the wilderness and up onto the main stage of British politics with close attention, empathy and verve.
Hace 6 días · He begins in 1968, with Tony Benn’s conversion from an on-message cabinet minister into a standard-bearer for radicalism. Benn’s reawakening coincided roughly with the coming to political age of four much younger figures – Livingstone, Jeremy Corbyn, John McDonnell and Diane Abbott – who went on to forge a new left with him.
