[…] I began reading about the relationship between the intelligence and security services and the British political system in the early 1980s, it was widely believed on the Labour left that the intelligence and security services were all-powerful and unaccountable. They are still unaccountable in any real sense: their accountability to Parliament is notional. But […]
[…] politics, but rather toward scholarly and long-term ideological endeavour. Moreover, while we are happy to speak to and, we hope, influence Conservative groups, we speak to the Labour Party, trade unions or anyone open to some aspect of the libertarian position. The radicalism of our civil libertarian position on immigration, victimless crimes, sexual freedom […]
[…] Whistleblowers: Shirley Porter, homes for votes and twenty years of scandal in Britain’s rottenest borough Paul Dimoldenberg London: Politicos, 2006, £12.99, p/b The author was a Labour councillor in Westminster during Porter’s ‘reign of terror’ and was instrumental in eventually bringing her down. With an insider’s view he has written an immensely detailed […]
[…] on Northern Ireland. To get it on the air you have to get it past Ware. Comment? I wouldn’t dare. Enemies of Democracy? ‘The debate within the Labour right on how to handle the “left-wing problem” was often heated, indeed acrimonious… Many discussions took place “across the floor”. They normally came to nothing, Yet, […]
[…] Bridewell police station. Ryan and Daly were rather vague characters to me, who lived in a political twilight world on the fringe of the trade union and labour movement. I met Ryan and we went to the Bridewell. Jordan emerged looking dishevelled and complained that he had retired for the night, only to be […]
[…] a ‘shorthand’ instrument of political PR, speeches are its ‘longhand’ equivalent. The Prime Minister has given three ‘world vision statements’ since 11 September 2001. These were at Labour Party Conference that year and this, as well as at the Earth Summit in Johannesburg in September 2002. At the last of these, he announced a […]
[…] the banality and irrelevance,’ describing them as ‘uniformly nineteenth century minds pretending to relate to the twentieth century’. Another of those who have attended, Christopher Price, then Labour MP for Lewisham West, found it ‘all very fatuous……icing on the cake with nothing to do with the cake.’ (Eringer 1980, p. 26). Denis Healey, on […]
[…] of the founders of that consortium had in 1994 been appointed director of the Dounreay Nuclear Establishment.(30) The AWE decision was roundly attacked in the Commons by Labour MP Frank Cook, who claimed that Brown and Root’s record in the U.S. running nuclear contracts was abysmal. He pointed to the South Texas Nuclear Project, […]
[…] the agreement. There is considerable opposition to the MAI, especially from environmental and development organisations, amid fears that its provisions could damage environmental quality, social welfare and labour standards, and its progress has been slowed. Currently (May 1998) the MAI has not been signed, and seems likely to be further delayed, largely due to […]
[…] WTO-driven free trade regime in a world without enforceable international law and with large accumulations of capital emerging from the supply of consumer wants (including guns, sex, labour, drugs, untaxed goods and unregulated financial services), the lifting of capital controls by the Reagan-Thatcher generation also meant the globalisation of criminality in all its forms. […]
