[…] 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 […]
[PDF file]: The Corbyn years John Booth Left Out: The Inside Story of Labour Under Corbyn Gabriel Pogrund and Patrick Maguire London: The Bodley Head, 2020, £18.99 This Land: The Story of a Movement Owen Jones London: Allen Lane, 2020, £20.00 When back in 2015 newly elected Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn was first hit by critical […]
[…] and of trade union collective bargaining rights. Accepting that such developments followed from national emergency, for a time some employers had even backed the calls of the labour movement for the maintenance of wartime industrial arrangements into the period of reconstruction. But as the combination of the Bolshevik revolution and full employment generated unprecedented […]
[…] Fred appeared in it. My phone only began to ring when the first rumours began to arrive about Peter Wright’s Spycatcher book. While Colin’s stories of anti- Labour psy-ops issuing from the Army and the spooks in Northern Ireland could be ignored (he had been in jail and had been a professional disinformer, after […]
[…] In Lobster 43 I reported on the case of the then breaking electoral fraud case in Birmingham, which has now come to fruition with the sacking of Labour councillors who rigged the city’s elections. Although warned repeatedly in advance (by very reputable civic figures) that an election was being corrupted, Birmingham Police were so […]
[…] Evans. The other two members were Michael Beloff QC and James Goudie QC. Beloff and Goudie were not only closely connected with the Blairs but also the Labour Party. These relationships were of prime importance because my appeal concerned data which, if it existed, could only have related to the Blairs’ attempt to have […]
[…] since A. J. P. Taylor managed a coherent account of the Austro-Hungarian empire in a single volume. Dorril has a general theme, perhaps two, but he doesn’t labour them: the diminution of Britain as a world power, and the way in which covert political operations attempted to oppose this, while at the same time […]
[…] platform, in Parliament he could eventually count on the support of some forty Conservative MPs, the Liberals under Archibald Sinclair, and, after Munich, almost all of the Labour Party. Origins of The Focus The Focus was partly a dining club and partly a campaign co-ordinating committee. If not strictly secret, it was private and […]
[…] the Persians could effectively resist the comparatively small number of troops which could be brought in quickly’.(24) The Foreign Secretary and the Defence Minister of the then Labour government both favoured the use of military force to seize the oil installations. The option of military intervention was kept open until September 1951, when the […]
[…] wouldn’t surprise me much, considering how many little remnants of the British Empire are drug traffic air-strips – but had the charge been levelled by a senior Labour Party figure, since the Tories are unwilling to reveal their sources of income, what could they have done but deny it? Challen works for the Labour […]
