From the archive: No renaissance for Mr Healey
September 1981: Tony Benn vs Denis Healey for Labour deputy leadership
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September 1981: Tony Benn vs Denis Healey for Labour deputy leadership
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October 1983: Ronald Reagan invades Grenada and deposes its revolutionary leader – without consulting Britain
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October 1985: Neil Kinnock’s explosive conference condemnations plunge the Labour left into turmoil
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August 1987: Geoff Dyer reviews the writer’s selected works
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1926: How TS Eliot’s “music of ideas” saved a generation
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August 1971: Terry Eagleton reviews Alasdair MacIntyre
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March 1981: Geoffrey Howe launches the Thatcher governments spend-cutting, tax-raising Budget to widespread contempt
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January 1973: Paul Foot rails against establishment neglect of the thalidomide children
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