Wanted: political home for liberals of small l variety Jun 18, 2008
The British liberal greats William Gladstone, Herbert Asquith and David Lloyd George saw fighting inequality as integral elements of any liberal program. Lloyd George's famous 1909 budget, for example, was described by him as a "war budget for raising money to wage war against poverty and squalidness". (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Caught on canvas: Tony Blair revealed in his first official portrait Jan 19, 2008
Previous portraits of prime ministers at Lincoln's Inn include William Pitt, Spencer Perceval, Herbert Asquith and Margaret Thatcher. Bookmark with. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Digital archive Nov 13, 2007
" Both were roughly ejected from the hall and, rather than pay a fine, chose imprisonment.The incident caught the attention of politicians and the press, which unanimously condemned their unladylike conduct, the suggesting that it was "such as one was accustomed to attribute to women from the slums".This early reporting of the suffragette movement by the Guardian, edited through a male Liberal view that thought women could earn their enfranchisement if they engaged in reasoned debate and behaved... (Guardian Unlimited)
BBC sound archiveVietnamese spoon music to Edward VIII's abdication - listen here Aug 31, 2007
She noticed that among them were recordings of GB Shaw, HG Wells, Winston Churchill, Herbert Asquith and GK Chesterton. So she hesitated. (BBC News -- UK)
Bonham Carter expecting child Aug 10, 2007
Bonham Carter is the great-granddaughter of former prime minister Herbert Asquith. She scored her first leading role at the age of 17 and shot to fame as a classic English rose in period films such as Howard's End and A Room With a View. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Soaked in profitsAre traders making easy money from flooding victims? Jul 26, 2007
In the first years of World War I, the government of Herbert Asquith did not impose price controls and exercised a "laissez faire" attitude that saw costs increase, explains Terry Charman, a historian at the Imperial War Museum. What is so striking about the floods today, is that WWII looms so large. (BBC News -- Business)
Murdoch: Like father, like son? Jul 3, 2007
Murdoch, when he left, would smuggle out a report Ashmead-Bartlett had written and get it into the hands of the British prime minister, Herbert Asquith, in London. Another correspondent overhead them scheming, however, and Murdoch was stopped in Marseilles and the letter taken from him. (Boston Globe)
