Reflections on man’s inhumanity to man.

This morning I bought the Daily Express to see the headlines “Five million people in Britain have never worked under Labour, Two million have never worked in their lives.”
This has annoyed me that not only this, but previous Governments have never appeared to encourage people to work and we are rapidly becoming a Third World Nation of “No Hopers” with negative attitudes.

The release of “One in Ten” by British reggae band UB40 in 1981 seemed to challenge everything going wrong with Margaret Thatcher and her Conservative government of the 1980s. At the time of the song’s release, Britain were going through great economic turmoil and Thatcherism seemed to show a part of society that did not care for those suffering the most. Here is an analysis of “One in Ten” and how well it raises some political issues very relevant today in the face of yet another economic crisis.

So what was happening in 1972? Was it just the year in between 1971 and 1973?
It was six years after 1966 and all that. I hope Sir Geoff Hirst or those two blokes who wrote “1066 and all that” does not see this, I can’t afford the copyright.

You may love them or hate them, but the 10 people who make up this list gave the most memorable speeches of the twentieth century – mostly for good reasons. Here, watch and listen to those speeches and decide for yourself whether they should have made this list.