Article: Fancy an OBE, guv? It's yours for a school.(Column)

Article: Greed and lack of any sense of propriety will be Blair's final ...
The Sunday Herald;  March 19, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... personality is very much a New Labour phenomenon. Part of ... destination of a journey New Labour embarked on before Blair ... Sunday Times revealed that Des Smith of the Specialist Schools ... in government. Yet, New Labour "modernisers" started ...

Article: 'Police arrested me at dawn and threw me in a cell. I hope they ...
The Mail on Sunday (London, England);  December 3, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... police cells and then cynically disowned by the Government. Des Smith was arrested after saying that businessmen could expect peerages ... by police probing links between peerages and cash gifts to New Labour causes. Before his fall, Mr Smith was lauded by Labour Ministers ...

Article: Damn the sleaze - but save the academies; The terms on which city ...
The Evening Standard (London, England);  April 19, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Byline: ANNE MCELVOY DES SMITH is an unassuming name and by all accounts belongs to a rather unassuming man. Working for a Government trust set up to promote ...

Article: Des Smith.(Features)
Sunday Mirror (London, England);  November 12, 2006 ;     279 words ... ... and again, one of the old songs from years back enjoys a fresh revival. One that is long overdue a re-recording is the Des Smith Country number, The Pillow That Whispers. Des did a wonderful version of the song during the showband days and it's a song ...

Article: The end of new Labour
New Statesman;  September 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... something is glaringly apparent: the new Labour project, initiated, perhaps unwittingly ... thinking and action, one as different from new Labour as this was from the creed it superseded ... understanding of the rise and fall of new Labour. For the century before new ...

Article: Book reviews: Where now for new Labour
Scotland on Sunday;  February 17, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Where now for new Labour Anthony Giddens Polity Press, GBP ... most to promote it as the marque of New Labour's newness. Demos should know. Former ... intellectual closest to the court of New Labour, and a keen advocate of the Third ...

Article: Which way? The Third Way and the puzzle of New ...
Harvard International Review;  March 22, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... assisted in the writing of this article. "New Labour, New Britain." It was with this simple ... evocative slogan that Tony Blair launched New Labour in 1994 and under which the Labour party ... But what is this "New Britain" that "New Labour" wishes to create? What is New ...