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	Anthony Crosland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Crosland returned to the House of Commons at the 1959 general election when he was elected for the Great Grimsby constituency, which he would represent for the rest of his life.
		She wrote in her 1982 biography of Crosland that he voted for Brown with zero enthusiasm (He wasn't keen on either candidate gaining the party's leadership) in the second ballot because it was an emotional impossibility to vote for Wilson, who won by 144 votes to 103 on 14 February 1963.
		Tony Crosland died in the Radcliffe Infirmary Hospital, at 5.40 a.m.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anthony_Crosland (1474 words)

	Left Book Club
		I was seven years old when Tony Crosland died in 1977 and I dimly remember being taken to a music lesson in Leeds by my Mum and the news being announced on the radio.
		Crosland wrote: “Conservative or indolent-minded people on the Left, finding the contemporary scene too puzzling and unable to mould it into the old familiar categories are inclined to seek refuge in the slogans and ideas of 50 years ago.
		Crosland did not think equal opportunity was enough as an aim for socialists but he drew our attention to something that can be easily missed because of the debate about whether it is enough.
	www.leftbookclubonline.org /?loc=misc_content/edmil_crosland_speech_01 (4980 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Magazine \| A Point of View (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Tony Crosland was a debonair, dashing Labour MP who eventually became foreign secretary, but died before his time in 1977.
		What was appealing about Crosland was that he was a Cavalier in a Roundhead party, so many of his comments were outrageous, particularly his undisguised dislike of the House of Commons.
		Tony Crosland's open contempt for parliament wasn't widely shared, but many of my contemporaries sensed that the House of Commons was in decline.
	news.bbc.co.uk /go/rss/-/1/hi/magazine/4480861.stm (1371 words)

	Telegraph \| Entertainment
		In their day, Roy Jenkins and Tony Crosland were the nearest equivalent to Tony Blair and Gordon Brown now: ambitious contemporaries whose friendship was soured by rivalry when politics became too small to accommodate them.
		Crosland, by contrast, could not cope with seeing Jenkins promoted in 1967 to the job he craved of Chancellor of the Exchequer.
		Crosland was warned by friends that he would be humiliated but, according to Radice, joined the race because he could not bear to accept that the other two were better qualifed than he was.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2002/09/08/borad08.xml (738 words)

	\|[ Progress] Magazine > Lessons from history
		Tony Crosland, a former chair of the Fabian Society and Oxford don, wrote The Future of Socialism after he lost his Gloucestershire seat in the 1955 election.
		Crosland’s work, as Roy Hattersley points out in the autumn Fabian Review, was designed to stimulate the Labour party into redefining its purpose in Britain during the 1950s and into the 1960s.
		Crosland was a contributor to the New Fabian Essays of 1952, a key publication which saw an emerging generation of Labour thinkers and politicians attempt to set out a new programme for the party following the decline of Attlee’s government.
	progress.squareeye.com /Magazine/article.asp?a=1384 (1035 words)

	The Voice of the Turtle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Seemingly innocuous socialist pieties are subjected to merciless criticism, including the claim that labour is the source of all wealth, the idea of a just distribution, or the aspiration for a free state and universal public education ("The state has need, on the contrary, of a very stern education by the people"!).
		For Crosland, what socialism was about was equality -- and the Labour Party was missing the point insofar as it concerned itself too much with issues of public ownership at the expense of this core value.
		Crosland, it should be noted, advocated more than the toothless 'equality of opportunity' of John Smith's Commission on Social Justice - he wanted a thoroughgoing transformative equality that looked to overthrow traditional patterns of status, privilege and wealth in British society.
	www.voiceoftheturtle.org /dictionary/dict_c1.php (3609 words)

	New Statesman - Socialism: the new divide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		But if Crosland is still very contemporary in the framework of beliefs he set for the party and his understanding of its character, his mid-20th-century world is strikingly different from ours.
		Crosland learned in government some of the harsh real-ities of which he wrote in The Future of Socialism, serving Labour administrations in both the Sixties and Seventies and witnessing how a sense of economic failure held back Labour's ability to deliver its social justice agenda and undermined its reputation for economic competence.
		The prevailing wisdom in Crosland's day, of course, was that it was nationalisation and/or state planning that provided the litmus for believers, and no one now argues that the state should be running the commanding heights of the economy.
	www.newstatesman.com /Politics/200609180016 (2495 words)

	GBHP4
		Tony Benn and Roy Jenkins have already announced their intention to stand as leader.
		Of the five remaining candidates Michael Foot and Tony Benn were both faced with an immediate disadvantage due to the continuing suspension of the Party whip from the eleven Independent Labour MPs, all of whom could have been expected to back either Foot or Benn.
		Tony Crosland had been a minor candidate from the start, and it was perhaps only the backing of Jim Callaghan that persuaded him to stand.
	www.btinternet.com /~chief.gnome/gordon4.htm (2526 words)

	GBHP12
		The three candidates for the election, Roy Jenkins, Tony Crosland and Tony Benn all declared their candidacy in subdued manner on the 26th January.
		Members of Crosland's campaign team have told the authors that in the run up to the ballot they had secered firm pledges from 85 MPs, enough for victory even accounting for the inevitable unreliable pledges.
		Tony Crosland's death on the 9th February made Roy Jenkins the de jure leader of the Labour Party, although almost a third of the Parliamentary Labour Party, under the leadership of Tony Benn, immediately announced that they would not recognise the result and would fight the election in opposition to Powell's "fascist" policies.
	www.btinternet.com /~chief.gnome/gordon12.htm (3621 words)

	BBC - BBC Four - Tony Benn - Free At Last
		The Sun newspaper asked "Is this the most dangerous man in Britain?" Fellow socialist and MP, Tony Crosland, said he was "just a bit cracked", while Harold Wilson called him a man "who immatured with age".
		Born at 40 Millbank, the very site of New Labour's HQ, young Tony's neighbours were Sidney and Beatrice Webb, authors of the formerly hallowed Clause IV of the party's constitution, which advocated nationalisation.
		Like his father before him, Tony Benn is a chronic chronicler, with a basement-filling archive of his voluminous diaries and tape recordings of his political journey.
	www.bbc.co.uk /bbcfour/features/tony-benn.shtml (617 words)

	Behind The Governments Veil Of Deceit By Ridwan Sheikh
		When the Prime Minister, Tony Blair, was initially quizzed about the damaging column published in the Lancashire Evening Telegraph, it was seen to be a gilt-edged opportunity to condemn the remarks, in an attempt to mend an already fragile relationship with the Muslim community.
		Instead, Tony Blair opted to endorse his colleague’s view by stating the niqab is a “mark of separation”, and believing it to be the reason for the country’s integration problems.
		The Tony Blair-Jack Straw ‘axis of deceit’, proved to be the catalyst for an unrelenting media campaign, demonising women who wear the niqab, even questioning the need for such a dress code in the west.
	www.countercurrents.org /hr-sheikh241106.htm (1448 words)

	Amazon.fr : Ruling Passions: Livres en anglais: Susan Crosland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		American-born Crosland, London Sunday Times columnist and author of Tony Crosland --a memoir of her late husband, Britain's former Foreign Secretary--seems well positioned to fictionalize the political and sexual games played by Britain's power brokers.
		Crosland's all too obvious clue-dropping and the dearth of sophisticated literary devices and psychological complexity make the reader's job either pleasantly easy or annoyingly unchallenging.
		Not only has Crosland worked as a London journalist, but her insight into British politics is also firsthand: she was married to Anthony Crosland, a Labour MP who held several ministerial posts.
	www.amazon.fr /Ruling-Passions-Susan-Crosland/dp/0708844715 (424 words)

	Oliver Kamm: Stuff
		If anybody in Labour’s leadership is interested in the ideas on which “renewal” could be built, Tony Crosland’s The Future of Socialism, published 50 years ago this month, provides the classic formula for relating the ideals of social democracy to the realities of the modern world.
		Tony Crosland himself was not a successful minister, and was passed over as chancellor of the exchequer, the job he really wanted, in favour of both Roy Jenkins—as home secretary the one unqualified success of the 1964 government—and Denis Healey.
		Crosland's real influence was in the 1950s, before he became a minister.
	oliverkamm.typepad.com /blog/2006/09/stuff.html (646 words)

	Press Office
		Susan and I first met when I was helping draft a speech Gordon Brown delivered on the 20th anniversary of Tony Crosland’s death in 1997 and it was a great honour to have the chance to talk to you about Tony’s life and work then and for you to be here today.
		The world has changed dramatically in the last fifty years —as Tony Crosland would have been the first to recognise.
		As I said earlier, he believed a concern with social welfare — the relief of social distress - and the ideal of “social equality and the classless society” should be the primary aims of socialism.
	www.fabian-society.org.uk /press_office/news_latest_all.asp?pressid=572 (5077 words)

	IMPOLITIC POLITICIAN - New York Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		To Susan Crosland her husband's position on that issue was simply right and those who disagreed with him were deficient in the brains or the guts to do the right thing.
		On the whole she is generous to Crosland's political colleagues and rivals, more generous, some would say, than they deserve.
		TONY CROSLAND went out of his way to let everyone know that he was not willing to lift a finger to be popular or politically successful.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9A06E0DD1F38F933A05752C0A965948260&sec=&pagewanted=2 (425 words)

	In praise of ... Tony Crosland \| The Guardian \| Guardian Unlimited
		But nearly 30 years after his early death, Tony Crosland is best remembered for his book, The Future of Socialism.
		Crosland was new Labour before his time in recognising that policies needed to change with the world.
		As foreign secretary, Crosland accompanied Prime Minister Callaghan to welcome the French president on his state visit, and he appalled his traditionally-minded boss by shunning the requisite white tie and tails.
	www.guardian.co.uk /leaders/story/0,,1873717,00.html (251 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Prime Minister's Wife: Books: Susan Crosland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Crosland created a true hero; loyal, intelligent, beautiful, honest, independent; the type of woman that all men dream about falling in love with even if their egos could never endure such a modest free spirit as she.
		Crosland's biography of her late husband, British Foreign Secretary Tony Crosland, was reviewed as "extraordinarily unconventional and dazzlingly honest." Now Crosland returns to fiction, and with her invaluable perspective and special insight takes us into the inner sanctum of political intrigue.
		When Blanche, an American journalist, and Luke, a young political idealist, marry they are committed to one cause: the promotion of Luke (with his obvious political talents) to ever higher office and power to fulfill their high ideals.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Prime-Ministers-Wife-Susan-Crosland/dp/186105386X (858 words)

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		Theories of social democracy (I): The Crosland model In the first few seminars we will discuss a variety of literature outlining the potential of social democracy and some of the constraints that social democrats may encounter.
		The IMF terms for a loan detailed by Denis Healey The Alternative Economic Strategy (Tony Benn) Import controls (Peter Shore) The case against deflation (Tony Crosland) Decision: what is to be done Conclusions The Characters James Callaghan, Prime Minister.
		As part of his bluff, Crosland is prepared to emphasise defence cuts to meet the IMF demands.
	www.bris.ac.uk /politics/current-ug/syl-arch/31371.doc (7126 words)

	Reviews: 'Revising revisionism' by Dick Leonard \| Prospect Magazine March 1997 issue 17
		Dick Leonard is a former advisor to Tony Crosland.
		Added to that, his glamorous wartime record in the parachute regiment, his first class honours and presidency of the Union at Oxford, his publication at the age of 38 of the widely acclaimed The Future of Socialism, and a glittering future seemed assured.
		Crosland, Jenkins and Healey were the reforming leaders Labour never had.
	www.prospect-magazine.co.uk /article_details.php?id=4621 (483 words)

	Independent Online Edition > Profiles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Tony Crosland and I had much more in common.
		But Tony and Roy were bitter rivals and then they became bitter enemies.
		If Tony had known what war was really like he would have worked harder to avoid conflict.
	news.independent.co.uk /people/profiles/article352345.ece (1275 words)

	New Statesman - Nearly men
		Healey and Crosland represented the conflict between philosophy and practicality which the party could not resolve.
		Tony Crosland found that too unpalatable to swallow.
		And, squabbles and niggles aside, it is the intellect and commitment of Crosland, Jenkins and Healey that shine through on almost every page of Friends and Rivals.
	www.newstatesman.com /200209230041 (1127 words)

	Tony Benn in his own words
		Cripps resigned and I was approached because Tony Crosland, who I had known extremely well and who was member for the neighbouring constituency South Gloucesteshire, recommended me to Mervyn Stockwood, who was later Bishop of Southwark and who was then a Labour Councillor.
		I resigned from the NEC in 1960 after Gaitskells speech on principle and earlier I had resigned in 1958 as defence spokesman because I couldn't contemplate the use of bombs.
		There was a certain naivete about Tony Crosland.
	www.bennites.com /TONYBENNINHISOWNWORDS.html (1965 words)

	politicalbetting.com » General
		With the weekend ICM poll showing support for an independent Scotland both north and south of the border the conditions for a strong SNP performance in May’s election for the Scottish Parliament could not be better.
		Thus the whole of the survey was completed before the Queen’s Speech the week before last and was finalised five days before the November ICM poll for the Guardian which we reported here on Wednesday.
		Elsewhere in the Observer the paper’s political editor, Gaby Hinsliff, is suggesting that Tony’s last day at Number 10 will be July 26th 2007 and that he will announce his plans following the May elections.
	politicalbetting.com /index.php/archives/category/general/page/2 (2549 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Programmes \| The Westminster Hour \| Sunday Supplement - Walden Reminisces
		And he had young followers like Roy Jenkins and Tony Crosland, who was writing a book called 'The Future of Socialism' and who came to see his old friends in Oxford regularly.
		To be fair to the leadership of the Old Labour party it had to deal with activists who hadn't had the stuffing knocked out of them by defeat after defeat.
		For instance, I liked both the late Roy Jenkins and Tony Benn, but they had no business being in the same political party, because the gap between their convictions was far too wide.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/programmes/the_westminster_hour/3701922.stm (2032 words)

	Telegraph \| News
		It was several years before I learned that this natural political activity was taking place during the six days I was engrossed in my dying husband, Tony Crosland, in the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, in February 1977.
		On a peaceful Sunday afternoon in Adderbury, our converted mill not far from Banbury, he was working in his armchair across the room from where I was writing letters to my family, when suddenly he said: "Something has happened." A massive brain haemorrhage had begun.
		Three years ago, having been demoted by Tony Blair to become Leader of the House of Commons, Robin said of his second wife: "I owe her a lot in that she has an emotional intelligence to her.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/08/14/ncook214.xml (1183 words)

	1952
		One of the them, "The Future of Socialism" by Tony Crosland, becomes established as a prime text for the right-wing of the party.
		Whilst Crosland is widely considered to be a social democrat, the core of his arguments centre around the creation of an equitable society.
		Richard Crossman's book, "Labour in the affluent society" is partly a left-wing repudiation of Croslandism from a brilliant academic.
	labhist.tripod.com /b8.htm (1279 words)

	State Law \| Clever Portlandlawyer Resource (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This year is the 50th anniversary of the publication of Tony Crosland’s groundbreaking revisionist work, and everyone I have spoken to in the Labour Party seems to be re-reading this remarkable work in its new edition.
		Crosland began the book when he was MP for South Gloucestershire in the early fifties.
		He finished it when the Labour Party was going through a period of serious self-doubt after a second successive general election defeat and the loss of Crosland’s own seat.
	portlandlawyer.allaboutlegal.com /107/state-law (137 words)

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