[…] GKY said and did was disinformation. He wanted to create the impression he led a large, powerful group in the Tory Party, which wasn’t true. Until ‘New Labour’, the Tory Party dominated twentieth century British politics by never having any serious rivals on the right. Contrast the Liberal and Labour parties and at times, […]
[…] whether Mills is guilty or not of any criminal offence(s). Apart from his testimony in British and Italian courts, his sole public statements have a familiar New Labour ring: I have done nothing wrong. This is something of a New Labour mantra. David Blunkett used precisely the same formula in his various recent post-resignation […]
[…] Except Bush didn’t beat the Democrats: the Republicans stole both elections; and the fascination this book has apparently roused is just an example of the inability of Labour and Democratic politicians to look reality in the face. Tunes and pipers Phil Chamberlain alerted me the reference in the blog of BBC Chief Political Correspondent […]
[…] between Legg and herself, Pat and I married. We were subsequently divorced in 1985. I had recently been involved in student politics as a member of the Labour Club, and was elected to the sabbatical post of Vice-President, a post from which I resigned and went back to my course. While living in Sheffield […]
[…] Downing Street briefing. But no, it’s Sir Oswald Mosley, in Malmo, in 1951. How ironic that his son, Max Mosley, with Bernie Ecclestone, should have funded New Labour; and how stupid that Giddens, and the other New Labour theorists, should have used such badly stained terminology. Secondly, what emerges is the extent of the […]
[…] vice-president and you were an eager young Guardian newshound in DC? Freedland’s fellow Guardian columnist Martin Kettle, the Communist turned great friend of Tony Blair and New Labour, has just discovered the City of London is not all it’s cracked up to be. As the Square Mile starts just down the road from his […]
[…] its effect, sterling’s release from a deflationary straightjacket blunted the effects of the early nineties recession and set the British economy onto the road of which New Labour is now so proud. The current government front bench were, of course, enthusiastic supporters of British entry into the ERM in 1990, and at the overvalued […]
[…] collection might have looked at is the recent paper by Giles Scott-Smith, ‘Searching for the Successor Generation: Public Diplomacy, the US Embassy’s International Visitor Program and the Labour Party in the 1980s’. (1) Scott-Smith, whose book on the Congress for Cultural Freedom was reviewed in Lobster 43, lists the Labour MPs who took what […]
[…] a hard-line, law and order Home Secretary such as John Reid, arrested and expelled from the country, but are instead welcome guests, mixing freely with both New Labour and Conservative politicians as well as maintaining an intimate relationship with Britain’s own security services.(3) The CIA’s role in the overthrow of governments is well-known, beginning […]
[…] on ‘full spectrum dominance’. As the text for this issue was being finished, the British media was full of stories about disillusion with Tony Blair and New Labour. Just this once I’ll say it: Lobster that is this writer and other contributors – never believed a word of it and the analyses of […]
