social democrats

The close general election gave victory to the social democrats, closing a decade of rightwing ascendancy during which a minority government of liberals and conservatives was kept in power by parliamentary support from the europhobic, Muslim-baiting Danish People's party.

Danes vote for their first female prime minister 2011

But no, the classic 20th-century parties of the left — social democrats in Northern Europe, socialists in the Mediterranean, Labour in Britain — are struggling, and 20 of the European Union's 27 member states have a right-wing government head.

How the Left Can Rise Again 2009

But libertarianism, independence from the EU, a - wait for it - smaller state do not appear to be part of the current package which preaches 'schoolsnhospitals' with the best of the social democrats.

The worm that turned 2009

But libertarianism, independence from the EU, a - wait for it - smaller state do not appear to be part of the current package which preaches 'schoolsnhospitals' with the best of the social democrats.

Archive 2009-03-01 2009

But while I and other scholars have been able to prove that other family structures have not worked as well as the traditional family, I cannot prove that alternatives could not work as well, and so the social democrats keep coming up with the next new ingenious program that will compensate for the absence of fathers.

Europe Syndrome 2009

As a woman who is a former researcher at the European Parliament, fluent in three languages and married to a British citizen, Thorning-Schmidt represents the new face of the social democrats.

How the Left Can Rise Again 2009

Rather, it is the tendency of the findings that lets us predict with some confidence the broad outlines of what the future will bring, and they offer nothing but bad news for social democrats.

Europe Syndrome 2009

But mostly, the libertarians v social democrats blog war is about everything, and therefore nothing.

The key question facing the online party today… Alix Mortimer 2008

But mostly, the libertarians v social democrats blog war is about everything, and therefore nothing.

Baby P might have become a “feral, parasitic yob” Alix Mortimer 2008

If we do not and continue to hold to the illusion that Cuba is in some way progressive then sadly the credentials of the democratic left, as outlined at the first congress of Socialist International at Frankfurt in 1951, will be all but discarded by this generation of social democrats.

Archive 2007-10-01 Johnny Guitar 2007