The Labour M.P for Glasgow South, Tom Harris (also a minister in the Department of Transport) has
a blog. Yesterday he wrote a post
contrasting post-war optimism with present-day pessimism-cynicism and remarking on the consumer affluence of modern society. It's actually fairly standard-issue stuff and doesn't appear to be especially controversial, though it's nice to see someone in elected office publically muse, albeit to a limited extent, on the issue (oh, and Harris has also missed a few obvious facts about the nature of economic expansion in the "Golden Age of Capitalism" that might go so way to answering his question).
Anyway
this was the main story (and big headline) in today's
Daily Hate Mail.
Presumably someone at that paper (and Philip Hammond as well, but he's so dull that, meh) must have remembered both
The Stun's treatment of a certain remark by Callaghan in '79
and that Marx quote about history repeating itself, the second time round, as a farce, at the same time. And found them to be inspirational.
