[…] of the Peoples of Russia was drafted which could, if stripped of its contingent allegiance to the German war effort, pass as a neo-conservative or even New Labour manifesto sixty years later. (4) It was naive in its time and it slipped through the Nazi system of ideological control in the chaos of those […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] and the journalist with the closest links to the British intelligence services, Chapman Pincher, both said that elements of MI5 had been trying to bring down the Labour Government during 1974-76 – and nothing happened. There was no serious investigation by British journalists, the Labour Party or the Labour Government. In Wilson, MI5 and […]
[…] 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” […]
[…] had anything to do with MI6, but it sounds like an almost perfect cover.’ (p.x) It is interesting to note that Jenkins thought this, most politicians (especially Labour) are incredibly naive in intelligence matters. Jenkins was pretty near the truth. The Chairman of the company was Lord Glenconner (Tennant) who joined the Special Operations […]
[…] in Britain….the main reason I wrote a novel is that the British laws on libel make it difficult, if not impossible, to describe the penetration of the Labour Party as the conspiracy which many people are certain it is.’ (pp. 59-60) Another outstanding example of this genre also used by Deacon is Frederick Forsyth’s […]
[…] fount of information on the B-sides of pop singles of the 1960s. Well, pop-pickers, our civil liberties are safe in his hands then. Or not. As New Labour prepares to cut back on the already pretty limited freedom of information legislation in this country, Falconer came out with a classic in the New Labour’s […]
[…] 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, […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] Smith picked up the Fabian version of the white man’s burden concept and went to Nigeria in the early 1950s for the Colonial Office. Working in the Labour Ministry, he drafted some of Nigeria’s labour and factory legislation. His memoir is a fascinating insight into the underbelly of British colonial administration. Smith not only […]
