Tom Gallagher

Tom Gallagher

Tom Gallagher is Emeritus Professor of Politics at the University of Bradford. His book 'Europe’s Leadership Famine: portraits of defiance and decay 1950-2022' is now available. His previous book 'Salazar, the Dictator Who Refused to Die', was published by Hurst in the UK (2020) and Portugal. (2022). His twitter account is @cultfree54

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Is there a journalist who could write Flashman today?

Tom Gallagher article from Monday 22, June, 2020 THE HERALD NEWSPAPER in Glasgow is reticent about the fact that its deputy editor in the 1960s later went on to be a master story-teller whose novels sold millions, many remaining in print today.  George MacDonald Fraser represents a past that the newspaper is uncomfortable about. The […]

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Urban freedoms are being menaced by determined extremists

Tom Gallagher article from Tuesday 19, May, 2020 LAST WEEK the libertarian politician Douglas Carswell came near to admitting that decentralisation measures introduced in Britain over the last twenty years had gone badly awry.  He tweeted: “Let’s be honest, it’s not been a great moment for us localists, this crisis. Police commissioners have been invisible. The […]

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England deserves better from Scotland

Tom Gallagher article from Monday 2, March, 2020 ONE OF THE MOST PERPLEXING outcomes of the ‘These Islands’ conference (first discussed here on 24 February) was the condescension or impatience displayed towards England.  England’s poorer regions have made no objections to large fiscal transfers to Scotland and Northern Ireland, nor to increasing emphasis being given in […]

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