Loading... Please wait...

Anthony Painter

Anthony PainterAnthony Painter is author of Barack Obama: Movement for Change, which is already on its second printing and published in Italian, Japanese, Audiobook, and e-book. He also recently written for The Guardian, The Independent, Tribune, and the Birmingham Post and appeared on BBC Breakfast News, The Adam Boulton Show, BBC Radio Five Live, BBC London, LBC, BBC Radio Wales, and dozens of other stations talking about the new president, his administration, British and European politics. He is a Labour party candidate for the European Parliament in the West Midlands. Anthony blogs at anthonypainter.co.uk.

Posted on Apr 02, 2009 at 03:29pm

Contributor's latest posts

The hostile takeover of Cadbury shows we've got the state-market balance wrong

12:32 pm, Wed 3rd Feb 2010
The hostile takeover of Cadbury shows we've got the state-market balance wrong The Labour movement column By Anthony Painter / @anthonypainter A couple of years ago I was driving up the A38 – the Birmingham road section approaching Longbridge – for the...
Read 'The hostile takeover of Cadbury shows we've got the state-market balance wrong' >

Tory strategy and policy is "anything goes" - Labour must overcome with a new economic narrative

12:39 pm, Wed 27th Jan 2010
Tory strategy and policy is "anything goes" - Labour must overcome with a new economic narrative The Labour movement column By Anthony Painter / @anthonypainter A pattern is emerging in the Conservatives' election strategy. The assumption is that they need to simply guide the ship in...
Read 'Tory strategy and policy is "anything goes" - Labour must overcome with a new economic narrative' >

A year on: What if George W. Bush had still been President?

10:09 am, Wed 20th Jan 2010
A year on: What if George W. Bush had still been President? By Anthony Painter / @anthonypainter Back in the summer of 2008, when I was speaking to people in communities of the South side of Chicago about the former community organiser...
Read 'A year on: What if George W. Bush had still been President?' >

The Audacity to Win: everything flows through the prism of strategy

2:16 pm, Wed 13th Jan 2010
The Audacity to Win: everything flows through the prism of strategy The Labour movement column By Anthony Painter / @anthonypainter “Everything in the campaign flowed through the prism of strategy.” And that is the line that sums up the Obama '08...
Read 'The Audacity to Win: everything flows through the prism of strategy' >

Blogs are great - but online political communication in the UK is still a disappointment

9:30 am, Wed 6th Jan 2010
Blogs are great - but online political communication in the UK is still a disappointment The Labour movement column By Anthony Painter / @anthonypainter It is impossible to say what will be the defining issue or moment of the coming excruciatingly long election campaign. It...
Read 'Blogs are great - but online political communication in the UK is still a disappointment' >

In a multipolar world, the US needs influential allies

7:02 pm, Wed 30th Dec 2009
In a multipolar world, the US needs influential allies By Anthony Painter / @anthonypainter This post was simultaneously published at the LabourList pages of the HuffingtonPost. "It is immensely moving when a mature man -- no matter whether old...
Read 'In a multipolar world, the US needs influential allies' >

Unifying Lines: the case for Labour in 2010 should be about justice and continued reform

12:35 pm, Wed 30th Dec 2009
Unifying Lines: the case for Labour in 2010 should be about justice and continued reform The Labour movement column By Anthony Painter / @anthonypainter One of the oldest adages in British politics is that oppositions don’t win elections, governments lose them. It is verging on...
Read 'Unifying Lines: the case for Labour in 2010 should be about justice and continued reform' >

We failed then, as now: why Blair must summon humility if we are to understand the lessons of Iraq

2:47 pm, Wed 16th Dec 2009
We failed then, as now: why Blair must summon humility if we are to understand the lessons of Iraq The Labour movement column By Anthony Painter / @anthonypainter Robert McNamara, the Vietnam War Secretary of Defense, who became increasingly troubled as the US stumbled deeper into the mire, over...
Read 'We failed then, as now: why Blair must summon humility if we are to understand the lessons of Iraq' >

Two stunning by-election results for Labour

11:31 am, Fri 11th Dec 2009
By Anthony Painter / @anthonypainter Labour are motoring in the West Midlands after two major by-election victories last night. The first was in Nuneaton - Camp Hill - where Jayne...
Read 'Two stunning by-election results for Labour' >

How can you change Britain without understanding class?

8:51 am, Wed 9th Dec 2009
How can you change Britain without understanding class? The Labour movement column By Anthony Painter / @anthonypainter The British seem uniquely capable of combining an obsession with class with denial about its consequences. Ever since David Cameron sought...
Read 'How can you change Britain without understanding class?' >