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<a href="http://b-chu.livejournal.com/836.html">Ben Chu: A return to socialism? Hardly</a>

Tuesday 25 November 2008 14:52 GMT
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So it's back to the Seventies. Tax the rich. The return of the politics of envy. New Labour is dead. That's the view of many in the right wing press this morning in the wake of the Pre-budget report. And no wonder. Such an interpretation is in their ideological comfort zone.

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