Harold Macmillan
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Oct 21, 2026
Obadiah JonesHOST
Professional obligations fulfilled, they wouldn't need those during their holiday.
Obadiah JonesHOST
The only slight hitch was that the Beatles were due to attend an honorary luncheon in London on Thursday with previous Prime Minister Harold Macmillan for their work for the British NGO Oxfam.
Obadiah JonesHOST
Starting the previous December, the Beatles had helped fundraise for Oxfam by lending their support and publicity to the charity.
Obadiah JonesHOST
Without too much trouble, the luncheon was postponed and would become a dinner in Oxford on the 5th of March.
Phillip W. MagnessGUEST
These are... philosophical movements that emerged really in the last 10 years but they harken back to an old tradition on the reactionary right of the european continent in the mid-19th century this idea that industrialization was actually bad it corrupted the morals of society by directing it toward consumerism when it should have been focused on the idyllic life of living in the shire and tending to the farm and going to church and raising a family
Williamson M. EversGUEST
And there's a certain kind of British Toryism, so-called wet Tories or Thomas Carlyle-type Tories or something like that, not Maggie Thatcher-type Tories, but Harold MacMillan-type Tories.
Williamson M. EversGUEST
That branch
Phillip W. MagnessGUEST
of conservatism was not only hostile to free markets because it viewed them as disrupting social order, it was also much more open to the government involving itself in the private sector.
Peter HillGUEST
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Peter HillGUEST
John Major, Harold Macmillan.
Peter HillGUEST
There's a nice story in here I, I tell about Harold Macmillan, where he, he came to give a talk at C- Cambridge when he was prime minister, and the young chairman of the student Tories was Norman Fowler, who became Chairman of the House of Lords.
Mike WaddingtonHOST
Mm-hmm.
Peter HillGUEST
After the speech, we went back to my college for a drink, and someone pushed forward and said, "Prime Minister, have you read Lady Chatterley's Lover?"
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An hour before the speech, the JFK Library records, Secretary of State Dean Rusk gave the Soviet ambassador, Anatoly Dobrynin, its contents.
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Kennedy had also written to Premier Khrushchev and telephoned former presidents Hoover, Truman, and Eisenhower, and the British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan.
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On the morning of the 24th, the committee advising the president recorded that certain Soviet ships appeared to have stopped or turned back.
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The president directed that there be no interception for at least another hour while clearer information was sought.
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The delegates were not only deciding who held power; they were arguing about hospitals and apartments and newspapers.
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The library keeps the stenograms of the sessions in fifteen subcollections.
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Later that year, the Office of the Historian notes, in August, Tadeusz Mazowiecki became the first non-Communist prime minister in Eastern Europe.
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We will keep to that plain fact and to the long list of subjects.
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Ghana se convirtió en el primer país del África subsahariana en obtener la independencia en 1957.
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Aquello llevó al primer ministro británico, Harold Macmillan, a hablar del viento de cambio que soplaba por África.
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Fue quedarse corto.
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Entre 1945 y 1965, la población bajo dominio británico fuera del Reino Unido cayó de 700 millones a solamente 5 millones.
Esther McVeyGUEST
'Cause we know you cannot negotiate [laughs] with Europe in a couple of days, and supposedly he's doing it now in a couple of days.
Esther McVeyGUEST
We know that, uh, uh, Harold Macmillan, when he was going into the EU, took from 1961 to 1973, so it's not a quick negotiating deal.
Esther McVeyGUEST
Everybody knows that.
Esther McVeyGUEST
And if you remember, David Cameron also said, "Oh, I'm going to renegotiate with the EU." He had a sort of a mission and a vision for five years before we got the EU referendum.
Lee EvansHOST
But Undoubtedly, I think a figure, even if you don't wish to celebrate, deserves to have some sort of monument that is there to basically help educate future generations on this remarkable figure.
Lee EvansHOST
Somebody who I perhaps would be keener to celebrate would be Harold MacMillan, I've in the past been quite interested in.
Lee EvansHOST
what would be involved in trying to create a Harold Macmillan statue in this country.
Lee EvansHOST
There have been some fairly recent statues of politicians in the 20th century that have gone up.
Lee EvansHOST
So we have had an increase in statue numbers.
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Ghana became the first country in sub-Saharan Africa to gain independence in 1957.
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That led British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan to speak of the wind of change blowing through Africa.
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That was an understatement.
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Between 1945 and 1965, the population under British rule outside the United Kingdom fell from seven hundred million to only five million.
Vivek ChibberHOST
Well, why didn't they just immediately go to neoliberalism, say, in 1950s or 1960s? So let's take England, for example.
Vivek ChibberHOST
Harold Macmillan is the conservative prime minister in the late '50s and early '60s.
Vivek ChibberHOST
Why doesn't he do what Thatcher did, say, 15 years later? Why doesn't he just dismantle the welfare state? It's because the working class and the trade unions were still too powerful.
Vivek ChibberHOST
They couldn't risk it.
Nick de SouzaHOST
Andy Burnham, meanwhile, is taking a social media first strategy, recognising its importance.
Nick de SouzaHOST
He is collaborating with social media influencers such as Max Klemenko, appearing on his career ladder feed on his first day as prime minister.
Nick de SouzaHOST
Yet, leadership is far more important to party success than media influence.
Nick de SouzaHOST
The influence of the media on party success is arguably overrated.
Nick de SouzaHOST
Likewise, leaders that pander to party divides end up costing their party.
Nick de SouzaHOST
Cameron was forced to resign once the Brexit referendum was lost, but he only promised this referendum to appease the Tory right after it had become disgruntled over the policies of the coalition with the Liberal Democrats.
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and his support for gay marriage sunak's decision to invite suella braverman back into government in an attempt to shore up his position with the new right spectacularly backfired when she used her position as home secretary to continually undermine his leadership starmer ditched over a dozen policies while prime minister in large part bowing to pressure from his back benches over such things as winter fuel allowance introducing digital id cards and the two child benefit cap He thus added to the perception that his government could be pushed around.
Nick de SouzaHOST
Polanski's credibility as Green leader was severely weakened when he failed to turn up and vote against the Zionism is racist motion at the 2026 party conference.
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