Francis Beckett London House, 1999, £20 John Beckett has always been an enigma: the fiery left wing Labour MP who became one of Mosley’s fascists, an unrepentant anti-Semite and war-time internee. How to explain this trajectory? Francis Beckett’s new biography is of particular interest because it is an attempt by the man’s son, a […]
[…] is it that small town, suburban and rural Muslims can be integrated into the community through sensitive policing whereas the radicalisation of urban Muslims is undercutting the Labour vote in the big cities and ‘something must be done’? I am beyond my competency in second-guessing either the politicians or the security services but there […]
[…] to give her early warning about coups in Africa. (Independent 23 July 2000) MI6 now have a license to roam throughout Africa. The spooks must love having Labour in office, terrified to oppose anything they ask for. Hitherto secret Whitehall committee trying to deal with unauthorised exposure of intelligence material was itself exposed in […]
[…] the American urban masses. But the loans have American strings. Cue the ‘regulators’ — good old Irving Brown et al — a regiment of CIA agents and Labour Attachés to fund and steer the anti socialist wing of the European labour movement in the name of ‘the communist threat’. This left revisionist thesis, specifically […]
Dodgy dossiers Steven Kettell, author of Dirty politics? New Labour, British democracy and the invasion of Iraq (London: Zed Books, 2006), argues that New Labour wanted regime change in Iraq before Bush and before 9/11 and that the production of the WMD Dossier was one of the key components of a broader political strategy […]
[…] part of the anti-subversion lobby in 1974 and 5! All their theories were being substantiated! The Russians ran the CPGB, which ran the unions, which ran the Labour Party. It was simple: all you had to do was follow the money! To this theory the Communist Party itself contributed by boasting of its influence […]
[…] of political economics. For years now Chancellor Gordon Brown has taken the credit for the UK’s low interest rates and low inflation. In his speech to the Labour Party conference on 27 September this year he said, for the umpteenth time: ‘Britain today has the lowest inflation for thirty years…. the lowest interest rates […]
[…] Tony Carew and David Ellwood who outlined the effects of the American effort to reorganise European business via the Marshall Plan. With the emphasis on transforming the labour process and ‘professionalising’ management, between 1950-54 900 American ‘productivity consultants’ came to Europe while 7,000 European workers and managers visited the US in order to solidify […]
[…] attended only the first meeting, permanent liaison between National Propaganda and the STO was instituted. Its role, however was not confined to propaganda, as the Ministry of Labour employed it to recruit, supply and supervise volunteers to undertake “those dangerous duties’ others had declined. To execute these duties National Propaganda was granted direct, official […]
[…] Majesty’s Government in the period 1974 to 1979 in the magazine Lobster in April. Member’s Constituency: Kingston Upon Hull North (Lab) Answer: the Attorney General: No. Anti- Labour leaflet Much reduced, this is the front cover of an anti-Labour leaflet put out by Information Policy in Northern Ireland. The text, on the other side […]
