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	Tony Benn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn (born April 3, 1925), known as Tony Benn, formerly 2nd Viscount Stansgate, is a British politician on the left of the Labour Party.
		Tony Benn was a cousin of the late actress, Dame Margaret Rutherford.
		Benn's father had been created Viscount Stansgate in 1942 when Winston Churchill offered to increase the number of Labour Peers; at this time Benn's older brother Michael was intending to enter the priesthood and had no objections to inheriting a peerage.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tony_Benn (2105 words)

	Tony Benn: biography and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Tony Benn's father William Wedgwood Benn was a Liberal MP who defected to Labour and was later elevated to the Lords.
		Benn defended his decision with an insistence that it was not about personalities but about policies.
		Holland park is a district and a public park in the royal borough of kensington and chelsea, in west central london in england....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/to/tony_benn.htm (2408 words)

	BBC - BBC Four - Tony Benn - Live Chat transcript
		Tony Benn Many countries elect their head of state, but this is not a criticism of the Queen, because she was born in the right bed of the right parents at the right time.
		Tony Benn I think there are many members of parliament who are trying to explain their position plainly, and I believe that the best way of doing it is not only in the House of Commons and the television studio, but in the street and at meetings.
		Tony Benn Socialism is an explanation of the world, and provides some guide as to how we might improve conditions, and has a moral base, and I believe it is what most people would like to see, even if they think it is a bit idealistic.
	www.bbc.co.uk /bbcfour/features/tony-benn-chat.shtml (1095 words)

	Commanding Heights : Tony Benn \| on PBS
		Benn was born the son of the 1st Viscount Stansgate and educated at the University of Oxford.
		Benn served in the House of Commons, the elected body of British Parliament, for Bristol South East from 1950 to 1960.
		Benn was chair of the Labor Party from 1971 to 1972 and in March 1974 he became secretary of state for industry.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/commandingheights/shared/minitext/prof_tonybenn.html (403 words)

	Tony Benn - Official Website
		Tony Benn - "Dare to Be a Daniel" [2004]
		Tony Benn feelingly recalls his years experiencing the agonies of adolescence and of school and the shadow of fascism and war with its disruption and family loss; and describes his emergence from the war as a keen socialist about to embark upon marriage and an unknown political future.
		Tony Benn's six volumes of diaries, covering the years 1940-1990, are a personal record of achievements, conflicts and dramatic events in political life.
	www.tonybenn.com /books.html (240 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Free at Last!: Diaries, 1991-2001: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Tony Benn's account is a well documented, formidable and principled critique of the New Labour Project, full of drama, opinion, humour, anecdotes and sparkling pen-portraits of politicians on both sides of the political divide.
		Tony Benn may not be as fully engaged in events as he may once have been, as he is increasingly sidelined by his own party, and his own inclinations and personal life draw him further away, and the diaries may not therefore be as politically satisfying as previously volumes.
		Tony Benn was a cabinet minister in the 60s and 70s - his diaries of those periods may be more interesting - but by 1990 he was at best a marginal figure, at worst a liability to his own party.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/009941502X (1459 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Profile \| Tony Benn: Labour of love
		Benn has held a no-nonsense attitude to politics both in and out of office and has doggedly refused to adopt policies incompatible with his socialist ideals.
		Benn is equally scathing in his criticism of "American imperialism" and repeatedly warned against the aggression on Iraq.
		Benn is a committed internationalist who met many of the leaders of the anti-colonial struggle in Africa: Kwame Nkrumah, Tom Mboya, Jomo Kenyatta.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2003/669/profile.htm (2719 words)

	C4 News - World - Iraq - The Saddam Hussein Interview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Tony Benn: I come for one reason only - to see whether in a talk we can explore, or you can help me to see, what the paths to peace may be.
		Tony Benn: May I broaden the question out, Mr President, to the relations between Iraq and the UN, and the prospects for peace more broadly, and I wonder whether with all its weaknesses and all the difficulties, whether you see a way in which the UN can reach that objective for the benefit of humanity?
		Tony Benn: There are people who believe this present conflict is about oil, and I wonder if you say something about how you see the enormous oil reserves of Iraq being developed, first for the benefit of the people of Iraq and secondly for the needs of mankind.
	www.channel4.com /news/2003/02/week_1/04_saddam_benn.html (2228 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Today's issues \| Tony Benn
		Despite his teetotal habits, Mr Benn is not entirely vice-free - he is rarely seen without his trademark pipe, and was, indeed, voted pipe smoker of the year in 1992.
		Mr Benn is also one of Britain's most assiduous diarists, recording everything in his notebooks each night since 1940, with seven volumes now published.
		His son, Hilary Benn, became MP for Leeds Central in a 1999 byelection, and was recently promoted in Tony Blair's post-Byers reshuffle to minister for prisons and probation in the Home Office.
	www.guardian.co.uk /netnotes/article/0,6729,728418,00.html (407 words)

	Tony Benn--23/02/2003: Sunday Nights With John Cleary
		Tony Benn: Well on my faith, I mean everybody at some stage in life has to make up their mind what they believe in.
		Tony Benn: Oh yes, well funnily, I always asked people what their religion was, and people usually say, ‘I’m a lapsed Catholic’, ‘I’m a lapsed Anglican’, ‘I’m a lapsed Muslim’.
		Tony Benn: Well I think the teachings of Jesus and the gentleness of ‘thy neighbour as thyself’, and all that, these are ideas which have an enormous relevance to our life.
	www.abc.net.au /sundaynights/stories/s794833.htm (4931 words)

	Tony Benn
		Tony Benn’s latest book, Free Radical, is published by Continuum; he is president of the Stop the War Coalition.
		Tony Benn, was born in London on April 3rd 1925, the son, grandson and father of Members of Parliament.
		Tony Blair is calling the subway and bus explosions in London a series of terrorist attacks designed to coincide with the G8 meetings in Scotland.
	www.selvesandothers.org /view126.html (555 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Politics \| Aristotle \| Tony Benn
		More than most people, Tony Benn has been shaped by his upbringing: he was the second son of a peer and the product of a privileged family, co-owners of the Benn Brothers publishing firm.
		As old Labour gave way to new, Tony Benn shed the his agitator's cloak for that of an eloquent elder statesman - opposed to the use of British military force abroad, and even more strongly critical of his party's new direction.
		As a result there were happy faces across in the chamber when Hilary Benn, one of his four children, became the Labour MP for Leeds Central in a 1999 byelection, the fourth generation of Benn parliamentarians.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /profiles/story/0,9396,-361,00.html (612 words)

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		Tony Benn, veteran Labour MP is retiring from Parliament after 50 years service.
		After the rise of Mrs Thatcher Benn championed the cause of constitutionally reforming the Labour Party to ensure that the PLP would be answerable to grassroots members.
		Under Kinnock the Labour Party began the long march to "modernisation" and Tony Benn was blamed by many to be the cause of Labour's unelectability.
	members.lycos.co.uk /nylabour/benn.html (240 words)

	Tony Benn in Conversation
		TONY BENN: Well I heard President Bush at the General Assembly and he gave an ultimatum not to Saddam, he gave an ultimatum to the United Nations.
		TONY BENN: Well not quite so much, because you see the dissenting tradition from which I came was deeper and older than that.
		TONY BENN: Oh yes, well you see if you go right back, and I’m not a proper historian, but if you go back to the old texts in 1381, there was a man called the Reverend John Ball, and he was preaching in support of the peasants and their revolt.
	www.abc.net.au /religion/stories/s1087072.htm (3406 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| Tony Benn: End of an era
		Soon Tony Benn, with his innate connection to a Socialist tradition rooted in dissenting ideologies as diverse as Methodism, Marx and the Levellers, will join them.
		Tony Benn's life story has been well documented: born as Anthony Neil Wedgwood-Benn, the son of Viscount Stansgate, Westminster School and Oxford, BBC producer and MP at 25.
		Tony and Caroline Benn: "She was my socialist soulmate", he says.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/1209497.stm (879 words)

	Paul Foot: Labour Left's Brightest Star (1980)
		Tony Benn doesn’t mind how many Marxists are in the Labour Party provided only that “they commit themselves to advancing socialism through Parliamentary democracy”.
		For Tony Benn knows as well as anyone that the power of the ballot box is open to the most terrible subversion by the rich.
		Benn’s remedies, however, are parliamentary: a planning agreement here and there, a new hunk of something or other taken into public ownership: a tighter exchange control or Treasury regulation.
	www.marxists.org /archive/foot-paul/1980/03/benn.htm (2390 words)

	News -- 78 Year-old British ex-MP records hip-hop 'rap' album
		Labor Party grandee Tony Benn became the oldest rapper in British politics on Friday when he launched an album of his most famous speeches set to ambient urban music.
		"Tony Benn's greatest hits" includes samples of some of the finest moments from a political career spanning half a century.
		Benn, 78, a darling of the British left, said the album, mixed by record producer Charles Bailey, is true to the spirit of his words.
	odili.net /news/source/2003/sep/16/44.html (320 words)

	BBC NEWS \| England \| Derbyshire \| Rap album for veteran politician
		The record - a collaboration between Mr Benn, 78, and rap artist Charles Bailey - was inspired by an anti-war speech given by Mr Benn at Hyde Park.
		Mr Benn said: "He is talented producer and has a good record in making videos about fl people joining the police and gun crime and voting in the referendum - if it gets through to people that is what it is all about.
		Tony Benn's Greatest Hits is a collection of his top 10 speeches, and will available on the internet at www.politicos.co.uk in August.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/england/derbyshire/2997424.stm (320 words)

	Tony Benn - Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Tony Benn, born in London in 1925, the son, grandson and father of MPs, retired from the House of Commons in May 2001, after fifty years in Parliament, to 'devote more time to politics', the longest serving Labour MP in the history of the party, which he joined in 1942.
		In 1949 he married Caroline Benn, educationalist and author of the biography of Keir Hardie who died in 2000 and they have four children and ten grandchildren.
		The Thatcherite revolution, and Labour's response, was to realign British politics and compound Benn's isolation.
	www.bennbiography.com /biography.html (528 words)

	Simplicity: Tony Benn - "Dare to be a Daniel"
		Tony Benn is obviously very proud of his family.
		Tony Benn's father always said that 'Daniel in the lions den' best described his feeling of fighting as the underdog - I love that idea.
		Tony Benn has always fought battles for the underdog throughout his political career.
	simplicityitk.blogspot.com /2005/08/tony-benn-dare-to-be-daniel.html (708 words)

	Arts Unlimited \| Arts Friday Review \| Pipe'n'bass
		Tony Benn's Greatest Hits is the brainchild of record producer Charles Bailey, who got the idea while standing in a chilly Hyde Park on February 15.
		Benn himself is less certain of the merits of his rhetorical style: "There may be a rhythm to it," he says, uncertainly.
		The secret to their longevity, says Bailey, is that Tony Benn gives us not just the politics, but also the history behind it.
	arts.guardian.co.uk /fridayreview/story/0,12102,1009627,00.html (982 words)

	Democracy Now! \| Former Labour MP Tony Benn on how Britain Secretly Helped Israel Build Its Nuclear Arsenal
		TONY BENN: Well, of course, Mordechai Vanunu, who was arrested by -- he was kidnapped in London by the Israelis -- he was telling the Sunday Times what was going on -- in prison, much of it in solitary confinement, recently released with restrictions.
		TONY BENN: He said, “Nonsense.” All he did was to shout during the Foreign Secretary's speech, the single word "nonsense." He was thrown out of the conference and interrogated under the Prevention of Terrorism Act, and that will be on his database forever.
		TONY BENN: Well, what is clearly known is that the United States has found it convenient to send people they suspected of some terrorist activity to countries where torture occurs and to ship them there by aircraft.
	www.democracynow.org /article.pl?sid=06/03/10/1451237 (5391 words)

	The Vega Science Trust - Science is Knowledge and Knowledge is Power - Freeview Video
		Benn, having spent a life-time as a leading politician closely associated with science and technology affairs informs us on how he went about taking advice from scientists on various major issues such as, nuclear power and weapons as well as the energy gap.
		Benn gives an insight into the influence that Civil Servants have on aims and decisions and the role of the Science Advisor to Government including the dismissal of Walter Marshall during his role as Minister.
		Benn stresses that his ‘main interest in life is to work for democratic structures and a part in controlling our own future’.
	www.vega.org.uk /video/programme/26 (443 words)

	Oliver Kamm: "What a quite remarkable man"
		Benn first gave a subsidy of £3.9 million of public funds to the company, and a further £860,000 was awarded in 1977.
		It struck me that, seen together, Foot, Benn, Powell and [Julian] Amery [an obscurantist Tory MP] represented the worst of their generation, escapologists from reality who were unwilling to stare the truth of Britain's position in the face and who made a career by bamboozling the impressionable.
		Tony Benn is so admired because he is a principled man, an honest man and a man with the sort of idealism that you cynics can only scoff at.
	oliverkamm.typepad.com /blog/2004/01/what_a_quite_re.html (2113 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Tony Benn: A Political Life: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Benn is a remarkable politician: his abridged diaries will show more about his thoughts, and the very checkered history of the Labour Party over the last 30 years than this book can.
		Its important to remember that Benn was virulently hated by his colleagues in the Commons for proposing democratic reforms to the Labour Party's selection process.
		Benn is man to be experienced in the raw.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0826464157 (639 words)

	Put ethics before corporate sponsorship - Tess Kingham MP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		How Benn persuaded officials to let him into the inner corridors of government with a fully loaded, laser guided camera is anyone’s guess.
		In less than an hour we were transported from the Tony Benn surgery in Chesterfield, through the hallowed corridors of Downing Street, and into the inner sanctums of spin doctoring, both in parliament and the infamous Millbank Tower.
		Benn’s programme was not an appeal to belief in miracles.
	www.poptel.org.uk /scgn/articles/9901/page5.html (687 words)

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