Douglas Beattie

Jul 9, 2024 | scotsman.com | Douglas Beattie

The emerging signs of policy shifts that voters can get behind – like an interventionist strategy to save jobs at the Grangemouth oil refinery – suggest Keir Starmer understands what he needs to do to stay in powerWatching Keir Starmer take his ceremonial saunter up Downing Street as Labour’s new Prime Minister was a moment which prompted memories of Gordon Brown’s walk in the opposite direction 14 years ago. Much has happened to the country since Brown left office in 2010, but little of merit.

Jun 12, 2024 | eandtbooks.com | Douglas Beattie

A fascinating history of how the unfolding drama of each election from 1900 to 2024 has shaped the Labour Party and modern Britain. This is an essential guide to how left-wing politics succeeds or fails through an accessible, highly readable and timely history of Labour’s performance in the 33 British General Elections since 1900. There have been 8 hung parliaments resulting in coalitions. Labour has won power 11 times; the Conservatives outright on 14 occasions.

Feb 15, 2023 | newthinking.com | Nikki Muller |Mark Sylvester |Douglas Beattie

If you’re reading this: you made it! It’s now the day after Valentine’s Day, which I vaguely recall some folks back in the prime era of Maxim Magazine and The Man Show calling “Blowjob and Steak Day.” (This was the invented holiday for celebrating hetero-couple love in the acceptably masculine way, so that women got Valentine’s Day, and this was for the bros—because all women want is chocolate, flowers, gift cards, stuffed teddy bears and a candlelit dinner, and all men want is dead cow and...

Feb 15, 2023 | newthinking.com | David Haldane |Douglas Beattie |Lien B. Tran

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Feb 13, 2023 | newthinking.com | Amanda Deibert |Mark Sylvester |Douglas Beattie

How do you feel about Valentine’s Day? If your answer is: “it’s a fake greeting card consumerist holiday with overpacked prix fixe menus,” you are in the majority.