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Harold Wilson

July 2024

  • Head and shoulders shot of Harold Wilson smoking a pipe

    Sad last days of Harold Wilson revealed by Cabinet Office archives

  • Black and white image of Harold Wilson at home

    Former PM Harold Wilson sold private papers to help fund his care

  • Keir Starmer at the European Political Community summit at Blenheim Palace on 18 July.

    Can Britain really keep the rise of the populist right at bay? History tells us it can

    David Kynaston
  • Keir Starmer meets school children at Haverstock School in Chalk Farm, north London.

    Uncool Britannia? How Britain might feel with the court of Sir Keir

May 2024

  • Rishi football composite

    Rishi’s own goal: six classic football gaffes by prime ministers – and what they reveal

    This week, Rishi Sunak put his foot in it while talking to fans in Wales. He certainly isn’t the first PM to make a mistake when talking about the beautiful game ...

April 2024

  • Catherine Bennett

    Secret’s out, Harold Wilson had another affair. There’s nothing sweet about that, boys

    Catherine Bennett
  • British prime minister Harold Wilson with his wife, Mary, in December 1975.

    Brief letters
    A rose-tinted view of Harold Wilson’s affair

  • Harold Wilson looking out of a window at 10 Downing Street on 5 April 1976, his last day as prime minister.

    The Guardian view on Harold Wilson’s affair: a secret at the sunset

  • Harold Wilson at a press conference in 1974.

    Harold Wilson confessed to secret ‘love match’ while PM, former aide reveals

March 2024

  • Baron Tomlinson of Walsall in the City of Westminster on 25th March 2019. Lords. Peers. House of Lords members. British politicians. British constitution. The streets of London. Streets of Westminster. Autor of Book title The March of political extremism in Britain.<br>T1JG1J Baron Tomlinson of Walsall in the City of Westminster on 25th March 2019. Lords. Peers. House of Lords members. British politicians. British constitution. The streets of London. Streets of Westminster. Autor of Book title The March of political extremism in Britain.

    Lord Tomlinson obituary

    Last parliamentary private secretary to Harold Wilson, whose political career spanned six decades

February 2024

  • The Post Office Tower, later the BT Tower, London, UK, August 1965.

    From the Guardian archive
    The Post Office Tower opens: ‘the 20th century Big Ben’ – archive, 1965

  • Boris Johnson hanging on a zip wire holding union jack flags over a park, with a tower block in the background

    ‘People said it did in his career’: 33 pictures that defined British politicians

January 2024

  • Keir Starmer and John McDonnell in 2019, shortly after Starmer’s election as Labour leader to succeed Jeremy Corbyn.

    Does Keir Starmer really need John McDonnell’s advice?

  • Andy Beckett

    A lesson from Harold Wilson for Keir Starmer: don’t let the right undermine Labour’s achievements

    Andy Beckett

December 2023

  • Baroness Falkender (formerly Marcia Williams), political secretary to British Prime Minister Harold Wilson, arrives at 10 Downing Street, London, 14th January 1975. (Photo by Fred Mott/Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

    Book of the day
    Marcia Williams: The Life and Times of Baroness Falkender by Linda McDougall review – notes on a scandal

    A much-needed retelling of the extraordinary story of Harold Wilson’s right-hand woman

August 2023

  • FILES-US-POLITICS-VOTE<br>(FILES) US entrepreneur and 2024 Presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy raps after doing a Fair Side Chat with Governor Kim Reynolds, at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines, Iowa, on August 12, 2023. Rap star Eminem has formally asked Republican presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy to stop using his music on the campaign trail, according to a letter made public on August 28, 2023. (Photo by Stefani Reynolds / AFP) (Photo by STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

    The Guardian view on politicians and pop: don’t maim that tune

    Editorial: By rapping along to Eminem, Vivek Ramaswamy has shown again why politicians should avoid pop culture

July 2023

  • John Betjeman in 1962

    John Betjeman dismissed as ‘songster of tennis lawns’ in 1967 search for poet laureate

    Records from the National Archive reveal the cut-throat world of British poetry, and the politics behind selecting candidates

February 2023

  • Harold Wilson at Heathrow airport, 1963.

    From the Guardian archive
    Harold Wilson elected leader of the Labour party – archive, 1963

    15 February 1963: Wilson is a formidable bulldozer – and one worth listening to
  • Spycatcher author Peter Wright, November 1986

    Cabinet Office faced criminal probe over blocked Spycatcher documents

    Freedom of information watchdog’s investigation team called in after UK officials repeatedly refused access to government files
  • People walk past the statue of former Labour PM Harold Wilson at Huddersfield train station.

    The time is ripe for royal commissions, but the reforms we need now will be resisted

    Letters: Roy Jenkins’ 1960s reforms were purely legal and social, not financial-political, says Brian Hatton, while Julian Harber takes aim at the honours system
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