[…] that the conventional narrative structure which is used to give sense and meaning to British politics was extremely misleading. Though the public is told that Tory and Labour are in opposition, that is not really the case. They are led to believe that the Liberal Democrats are an insurgent third party, but that is […]
[…] identified as part of the capitalist segment of the conspiracy leading to an ‘authoritarian world government’. (5) Far from contemplating a role in the overthrow of the Labour government, in 1974 the NF had only just been rebuffed by the Monday Club and seen the break-down of ‘the bridge’ between the racists in the […]
[…] of this and bought it for about $30 and it isn’t worth the money. This is a detailed account of some of the intellectual processes behind ‘New Labour’, focusing on IPPR and Demos in particular. The author has read the documents, articles and pamphlets produced by the little group of intellectuals who paved the […]
In the mainland UK press the bugging of a house used by Seamus Mallon, deputy leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party, was presented as (merely) another mysterious and rather inept example of ‘dirty tricks’ in Irish politics. (See eg Guardian 20th February 1984) A brief story appeared and then vanished again. But […]
[…] about the post-war Tory Party and its links with the secret state – in this case, almost exclusively MI5 – and various disinformation and smear campaigns against Labour Party politicians and union leaders. Some of this will be familiar to anyone who has read Smear!, say, but there is quite a bit of information […]
[…] institutional palsy, rigor mortis disguised as resolution, and fixed-grin happiness with a resplendent past.’ (p. 31) ‘It was in the late part of this era that the Labour Party graduated into that original “Establishment”; by the fifties it had completely absorbed most of its world view. Such assumptions are extraordinarily tenacious – as “Blairism” […]
[…] economic imperialism in order to achieve trade surpluses. The post-1919 system had generated deflation, had wrecked efforts to sustain international cooperation such as those of the 1929-31 Labour Government in Britain and had prevented the full exploitation of the wealth-creating potential afforded by technological progress. This was why Keynes argued that it was ‘ideas, […]
[…] (CPS) was formed in the autumn of 1981, its main activists being Dr. Julian Lewis, its ‘Research Director’, a Conservative who spent a brief time in the Labour Party defending Reg. Prentice in his dispute with the Newham Northeast Constituency; Edward Leigh M.P. (3), now M.P. for Gainsborough, who was principal correspondence secretary for […]
[…] reported academic research showing that the UK’s apparently low unemployment rate is achieved by having 2 million people on the long-term sick list. Welfare fraud figures ‘ Labour ministers have persistently exaggerated welfare fraud by a minority of claimants in an attempt to distract attention from difficult questions about improving economic security for the […]
[…] them.(1) In New Zealand, a bunch of true believers imposed this catastrophic nonsense on their own country. This was allowed to happen because the politicians in the Labour government, which let this process begin, didn’t know enough about economics (as was true in the UK at the same time); because the opposition to these […]
