Dec 15, 2024 · But in the 1970, she became dissatisfied with the Labour Party and she began to move to the right. "And that's quite a significant move for her, particularly as an Irish woman …

Aug 1, 2024 · What prompted her to abandon being a lefty was what she rightly regarded as the Labour Party’s betrayal of the poor in one vital area, which had remained central to British life …

Jan 25, 2010 · Murdoch was turned down as an ex-Communist under the McCarran Act, and each visit during her life-time necessitated a separate waiver. The Labour politician Hugh Gaitskell …

From an early age, Murdoch was interested in politics. She was a progressive radical at Badminton School in the 1930s, learning from the School’s special interest in refugees. She …

The Sandcastle is a novel by Iris Murdoch, published in 1957. It is the story of a middle-aged schoolmaster (Bill Mor) with political ambitions who meets a young painter (Rain Carter), come …

Murdoch moved on from radicalism at the end of the 1960s. She was critical of Soviet Communism in Eastern Europe, disagreed with Labour policy on education, Ireland, and the …

Dame Jean Iris Murdoch DBE (/ ˈmɜːrdɒk / MUR-dok; 15 July 1919 – 8 February 1999) was an Irish and British novelist and philosopher. Murdoch is best known for her novels about good …

The postwar general election put the Labour Party in power with a landslide victory. Clement Attlee became Prime Minister; prominent in his Cabinet were Herbert Morrison, Ernest Bevin, …

Feb 28, 2015 · Later in her life, Murdoch became more conservative, and the later letters frequently show disdain for the Labour Party. As someone who feels that various isms — …

othing by her ever appeared in Isis, however. Her first appearance in a national, general interest periodical was the letter she wrote as chairman of the Oxford Labour Club ‘Full Circle’, which …