[PDF file]: […] to be a strange strategy for general election success. Only later did I learn that Ryan’s maintenance of her role as chair of the Labour Friends of Israel was seen by her supporters as a higher priority than a Labour majority, one reportedly supported by party HQ staff machinations.1 So I looked for a […]
[PDF file]: Running Rings Colin Challen Before the post of North Yorkshire’s Police, Crime and Fire Commissioner was abolished in May 2024 – to make way for a new executive mayor – the incumbent offered residents in certain postcode areas, assumed to be at more risk of crime, free Ring doorbell video cameras. These currently sell for […]
[PDF file]: The Black Door Spies, Secret Intelligence and British Prime Ministers Richard Aldrich and Rory Cormac London: William Collins, £30 T his new book by two respected academics has a lot to tell us about how Britain is run. We are told, for example, that at a CBI dinner in December 1971, the Labour Party leader, […]
[PDF file]: […] and voluntarily opted out of a major space exploration programme. Arrangements like these were so obviously at odds with what any other country would do (think here Israel, India, Pakistan, China and how they acquired nuclear deterrents) that one considers there must be something else at play – a psychological rather than a political, […]
[PDF file]: […] Colonel Gaddafi/EU foreign policy and interviewed on Newsnight she wore a noticeable gold broach. Glinting in the camera lights, it looked like the 6 pointed star of Israel doing neither Israel nor the EU any favours.2 4 Note 21 continued: ‘warned’ and traumatised. It ended, in PR terms, in America six months later when […]
[PDF file]: […] Al A’amah. Adham had bank-rolled the former spy Anwar Sadat, the third president of Egypt who expelled thousands of Russian military advisers before his surprise attack on Israel to re-capture the Sinai Peninsula in the Yom Kippur War of 1973. As the tide turned against the Soviet Union, Sadat and his vice-president Hosni Mubarak […]
[…] among its members,9 is obviously essentially a smear from the right (routine party politics). But it is also an illustration of the central tactic in the pro- Israel media playbook: accuse anyone who criticises Israel of being an anti-semite.1 0 While the Labour Party’s membership has ballooned since Corbyn became leader,1 1 the Conservative […]
[PDF file]: […] among its members,13 is obviously essentially a smear from the right (routine party politics). But it is also an illustration of the central tactic in the pro- Israel media playbook: accuse anyone who criticises Israel of being an anti-semite.14 While the Labour Party’s membership has ballooned since Corbyn became leader,15 the Conservative Party is […]
[PDF file]: […] and Hollick. In 2021 Labour Together was fined £14,000 for not properly declaring ‘around £700,000 in donations’ (p. 249) – a substantial part which came from the Israel lobby in Britain.8 Although Baldwin is quite open about the general part played by Labour Together, he omits the questionable funding issue. Mr. McSweeney is now […]
[…] and Hollick. In 2021 Labour Together was fined £14,000 for not properly declaring ‘around £700,000 in donations’ (p. 249) – a substantial part which came from the Israel lobby in Britain.8 Although Baldwin is quite open about the general part played by Labour Together, he omits the questionable funding issue. Mr. McSweeney is now […]
