[…] knowledge of the literature on Africa, Vietnam, Latin America, Middle East, Spanish Civil War, genocide, Balkan conflicts, Ireland, crime and punishment, black writers, the Russian Revolution, communism, Labour Party history, Thatcherism, science and society including nuclear issues, censorship and freedom of speech and of the printed word, feminism, radical working-class authors, human thought, espionage, […]
Contributors to this issue Don Bateman has a PhD in history, and has written widely on labour and trade union issues. Alex Cox is a film-maker and can be seen on BBC2 introducing the series Moviedrome. Phil Edwards a former chair of the Socialist Society, lives in Manchester and works as a systems analyst. […]
[…] The Guardian 16 March 2004 reported that Dr Paul Drayson’s company, PowderJect, was awarded, without competition, a £32m contract to produce smallpox vaccine. Drayson donated £100,000 to Labour and was one of a small group of businessmen to meet Mr Blair in Downing Street for breakfast in 2001. Britain’s biggest arms deal in history […]
Larry Elliot and Dan Atkinson Verso, London, 1998, £17.00, hb I haven’t had this book very long, have only had time to read it (quickly) once, so this is by way of an interim report. But a second reading won’t change my mind that this is a very good book. I enjoyed this more than […]
[…] 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 […]
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 […]
A Wapping mystery I noticed with some interest that Sunday Times editor, Andrew Neil, was described in the Guardian on May 27 as having been labour correspondent of the Economist in the 1970s. Was he, I thought, one of the correspondents recruited by MI5 in the big F branch expansion circa 1973-5? Did that […]
[…] is of a disturbed child, completely out of control. His rebellion at preparatory school and later at Harrow public school. In 1950 he painted the slogan VOTE LABOUR on a number of college walls (this did not indicate any youthful leftism, just that he thought this would cause more offense than anything else he […]
[…] the Whitehall trough, offered this paragraph in a piece in the Evening Standard (13 May, 1993), ‘Why Windsors aren’t tapped by Her Majesty’s secret service’: ‘The post-war Labour government was so determined to ensure that MI5 could never become a Gestapo that it proved wholly ineffective at monitoring the growth of domestic subversion, or […]
[…] 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 […]
