Roy Jenkins, Europe and the Civilised Society - Professor Vernon Bogdanor
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- Опубліковано 24 січ 2013
- Roy Jenkins was Home Secretary from 1965 to 1967 and again from 1974 to 1976. He sponsored homosexual law reform and the legalisation of abortion as well as legislation outlawing racial discrimination. He helped create what its supporters called the civilised society but its enemies labelled the permissive society. During the 1970s, Jenkins's support for European unity put him at odds with many in the Labour Party; and in 1981, he helped found the new but short-lived Social Democratic Party. Meanwhile, as President of the European Commission, he had played a fundamental part in launching the idea of European monetary union.
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Hugely enjoyable lectures by Professor Bogdanor. Thanks for sharing.
Wonderfully entertaining as always, Professor Bogdanor. Thanks for posting, Gresham!
A point worth making, given the tenor of the good Professor's account:
My mother was also a professional Bridge Player, wrote two bestselling books on the topic, had a very long running (over 25 years) Public Television show ("Bridge With Jean Cox") and retired a millionaire as a result. She was also highly educated, taught (American) English at a prestigious high school, and inculcated in her children a fine appreciation for the language and for scholastic, moral, and ethical, attainment in ourselves and others.
I somehow managed to throw off that wonderful conditioning and have since become a poet, song writer, rock musician, Science Fiction and Fantasy writer, and, in general, a determined enemy of Scientific and Academic intransigence. I do wish, sometimes, that I had more closely followed her lead.
Jenkins's denunciation of those attacking him should be shown to every militant Remainer in the current Brexit crisis.
Woy!!
Jenkins was a competent historian and biographer, but a pompous oaf in real life.
Jenkins was a fine historian and biographer. A terrible politician
His liberal legislation is certainly not to his credit, the dismantling of Britain's social and sexual laws, which he was largely responsible for, proved to be the ruination of a civilised society not the creation of one.