By Dafydd Ellis: They have used the same template for all elections where their chosen party and leader are promoted as strong and united, while the opposition party and leadership were being exposed as weak and indecisive. Labour in the seventies (weak and indecisive), made way for Thatcher and ‘strong’ leadership in the eighties.  With growing public exasperation with the Conservatives, in the nineties it was “time for change” with Tony Blair and New Labour being promoted…

By Kasredin: If the anti-British national press is to be believed, the Labour Party leader Ed Miliband is promising to drag us all back to the 1970s, and the days of Wilson and Callaghan.  We are expected to dislike him, and to compare him with the cheese-loving inventor Wallace in the animated films by Nick Park, but let us consider some hard facts. Under the ConDem coalition government, Britain has a deficit of £120billion.  Instead…

As historians and archeologists marvel at the discovery of the remains of King Richard III of England, the public are reminded of a time when our leaders were real men and suffered the consequences of their actions. Despite a deformity of the spine, Richard III was man enough to comply with the customs and expectations of his time and lead his armies into battle. He may have been on horseback initially and surrounded by a…