Dec 15, 2024 · But in the 1970, she became dissatisfied with the Labour Party and she began to move to the right. "And that's quite a significant move for her, particularly as an Irish woman living in...

Jan 25, 2010 · Murdoch was turned down as an ex-Communist under the McCarran Act, and each visit during her life-time necessitated a separate waiver. The Labour politician Hugh Gaitskell pleaded successfully...

Aug 1, 2024 · What prompted her to abandon being a lefty was what she rightly regarded as the Labour Party’s betrayal of the poor in one vital area, which had remained central to British life since the Middle Ages – education.

Aug 15, 2023 · In 1958, the philosopher and novelist Iris Murdoch complained about the paucity of progressive thought in the Britain of her day in the essay ‘A House of Theory’, which appeared in a collection of radical political writings. Murdoch, along with her fellow contributors, bemoaned the decline of socialist conviction, the loss of energy and ...

Apr 22, 2010 · Peter Conradi’s portly authorised biography was smartly challenged by A.N. Wilson’s slimmer unauthorised memoir, Iris Murdoch as I Knew Her, a witty, affectionate, impious account which made disturbing suggestions about Bayley’s feelings towards his wife.

Oxford University Labour Club (OULC), was founded in 1919 [1] to promote democratic socialism and is today the home of the Labour Party and of social democracy at Oxford University. The club caters for any students who are interested in the ideals of the labour movement whether members of the Labour Party or entirely new to politics.

Murdoch’s socialist essay: “A House of Theory” The socialist movement and the critique of capitalism Murdochs most important politically-focused early essay is the 1958 A House of Theory, written for a collection, Conviction, by Labour Party and other left

Murdoch moved on from radicalism at the end of the 1960s. She was critical of Soviet Communism in Eastern Europe, disagreed with Labour policy on education, Ireland, and the trade unions, and reacted against student revolt. Her letters and journals reveal visceral reactions to everyday politics.

The Sandcastle is a novel by Iris Murdoch, published in 1957. It is the story of a middle-aged schoolmaster (Bill Mor) with political ambitions who meets a young painter (Rain Carter), come to paint a former school headmaster's portrait.

Dame Jean Iris Murdoch DBE (/ ˈmɜːrdɒk / MUR-dok; 15 July 1919 – 8 February 1999) was an Irish and British novelist and philosopher. Murdoch is best known for her novels about good and evil, sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious.