[…] is quite interesting and impressive; but with a strange spin. There is a lot of (to me) new detail on the impact of the event on the Labour Party and trade unions, on money given to the NUM from other unions and on attempts to resolve the conflict. The authors show us the senior […]
[…] ways Justice Delayed is more shocking than his Eichmann biography because with that book we know what to expect. What Justice Delayed revealed was that the 1945-1951 Labour government did its best to keep Jewish Holocaust survivors out of Britain, but had no problem with allowing in Baltic veterans of the SS. While there […]
[…] far as 1967 before I realized that there was no mention of Lord Cromer, the Governor of the Bank of England between 1964 and 66, and the Labour government’s number one enemy in that period. Hang on a minute, I thought, and consulted the index. No entry for Cromer. Back to the text I […]
Tony Geraghty Harper Collins, London 1998, £19.99 Before dawn one Thursday in December 1998 a team of six Ministry of Defence police raided the home of the writer and journalist, Tony Geraghty. After seven hours, they left taking his computer, modem, disks and work in progress, having charged him under Section V of the Official […]
[…] section (pp. 336-7) on his attendance at the 1995 Bilderberg conference. Of this he writes: ‘I am sent by the Blair office as none of the front-line Labour spokesmen can go’. Oddly – or not – Bilderberg is not in the index. Generalissimo Somehow it was terribly cheering to learn from a posting by […]
[…] have been a strictly humanitarian gesture was given a political dimension by the fact that John Major’s rapidly-deflating Conservative government had stalled repeatedly on banning landmines, whereas Labour was promising a foreign policy with ‘an ethical dimension’. Declassified US diplomatic cables record that ‘Government officials immediately scrambled to repair the public relations damage, and […]
[…] when an increasing level of industrial unrest, serious disturbances in Northern Ireland, student revolt, the women’s liberation movement, the reemergence of the revolutionary left and a strong Labour left, all seemed to add up to a challenge on a scale not seen since before the First World War. And this was in an international […]
[…] global strategy for humankind’. Another is ‘Defusing the causes of terror’. Yet if you look him up on Google you discover that he is a member of Labour Reform, the group – to which I briefly belonged – which has been trying, without success, to resist the Blair faction’s destruction of the Labour Party. […]
Stewart Lansley London: Politico’s, 2006, £18.99 The sight of the Rolling Stones arriving in China to perform a government-approved selection of songs coincided with my reading a chapter of Stewart Lansley’s fine new book entitled ‘Only little people pay taxes’. He recounts Bianca Jagger’s 1979 divorce revelation that her former husband was obsessed with […]
[…] Ramsay and his friends openly strove to reach a deal with Hitler. Nor were they alone. Griffiths notes the effort put into this by Richard Stokes – Labour MP for Ipswich.(4) The Soviet attack on Finland (November 30th 1939) opened the possibility of converting the war from an anti-Hitler crusade into an anti-Stalin crusade. […]
